Episode 447: Burke & Hare Part 1
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William Burke and Margaret Coleman
By most accounts, William Burke was born in Ireland in the early 1790s. He found work as a servant to a Presbyterian minister and then tried his hand at being a weaver, a baker, a shoemaker, a candlestick maker. In 1809 he turned to the Donegal militia where he served as a personal attendant to one of the senior officers. And it was during this time that the militia, with the militia, that William Burke married Margaret Coleman who was a young woman from the town of Bellina. His father-in-law refused to transfer the lease of his land into Burke's name. So Burke was just pissed and just straight up abandoned the family in
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