rootsfinder wrote:It says on her daughter's birth certificate that her maiden name was Burk.
Hi. I realise that but you have to bear in mind that the census form was often filled in either by someone who did not spell very well, or someone who could spell but only based on what they were told.
So it is very common for a name like Burk to appear as Burke on some records. Then too the original census entry (filled in by the head of the household or another person) was transcribed by the enumerator and is that transcription which is seen on sites like Ancestry. The index provided by Ancestry, or whichever company you use, is transcription of the enumerator's transcription so if the enumerator used a pen which blotched the ink, or wrote in a very poor hand, it can lead to errors in the transcription. The end result is that if Alice Burk, born London in 1864 doesn't pop out then you have to look for possible mis-spellings. Sometime the name is right but the age is wrong, it is a matter of finding a possibility and then seeing if it looks likley or if it can be ruled out.
You don't really have much to go on:
Alice Burk, born abt 1864, lived Tottenham Court Road. Married Thomas Lyons and left London before 1879, settled in Ireland.
