Burke family

Burke is the surname of a family supposedly descended from the Originals and, as such, are a family of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. They are related to the Black, Flint, and Malfoy families.

Known Family Members

 * Caractacus Burke
 * Elizabeth Burke
 * Herbert Burke

Etymology
Burke is an Anglo-Norman pronunciation of burgh, which was "a topographical surname for someone who lived in a fortified place." In Middle English, it meant a "fort or fortified town," though in Old English, it mean "to murder by suffocation" or "to smother, conceal, hush up, suppress."