Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell (1899 - 1963): Vitter-Weaver Genealogy

1899 - 1963 (64 years)

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Name	Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell [1]
Relationship	with Albert Leopold Vitter
Birth	20 Aug 1899	Castlecomer, Kilkenny, Ireland [1]
Gender	Male
Death	20 Aug 1963	Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, USA [1]
	Died without children
Notes	Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell was a man of mystery, much of his own making. In his prime he operated a detective agency in Trenton: Burtchaell Research Service, at 64 Prospect Street. He was very handsome, with a mane of white hair and a white mustache. He spoke of his father as "Sir Cecil," and claimed an upperclass background. His father, it seems, served as a sailor on the yacht of a wealthy pharmaceutical executive, and was not a man of wealth. His mother was involved in drama, Joseph spoke of himself sometimes as an atttorney, and even as a professor of law at Princeton University, but was neither. His : knowledge of medicine implies possible medical training in his youth. He claimed he had come over from Ireland "with a price on his head and a bullet in his knee." He was neither Catholic nor Protestant, but an atheist, and a devotee of the iconoclast writings of Brand. This memoir is drawn from information provided by Signe Burtchaell, and by Javan Kienzle (wife of William Kienzle, the mystery writer), who had worked briefly for Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell in Trenton. Signe Burtchaell, his widow, tells Fr. James T. Burtchaell that he posed for the trademark portrait for Prince Albert Tobacco.
Person ID	I77436	Vitter-Weaver Genealogy
Last Modified	24 Jul 2023

Father	Trevor Cecil Burtchaell, b. 1 Oct 1871, Coolroe, Wexford, Ireland d. DECEASED, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Mother	Emily Beacham d. DECEASED
Marriage	UNKNOWN [1]
Family ID	F60935	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Elizabeth ?, b. 24 Oct 1902, New Jersey, USA d. Mar 1983, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years)
Marriage	UNKNOWN [1]
	After years of marriage to Elizabeth, Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell divorced her. Elizabeth lived on many years in Trenton, and eventually died in the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Philadelphia. He married Signe, previously married in Germany and a generation younger, and they moved to Florida, where she survived him and retired in 1999.
Family ID	F60988	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	24 Jul 2023

Family 2	? ? d. Died of a growth in her abdomen that was inoperabl
Marriage	UNKNOWN [1]
	Signe E. Burtchaell writes: When Joseph was very young, he had told me, he was married to a beautiful young woman and they were very happy. When she displayed feelings of being ill and she developed a distended abdomen, they believed she was pregnant. However, as time went on, they learned that it was a growth which by that time was inoperable. She died .... I never learned the young lady's name.
Family ID	F60989	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	24 Jul 2023

Family 3 Signe E. Aigner, b. 2 Mar 1927, Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany d. 13 Apr 2011, Sarasota, Florida, USA (Age 84 years)

Marriage 20 Mar 1958 Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA [1]

After years of marriage to Elizabeth, Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell divorced her.
Elizabeth lived on many years in Trenton, and eventually
died in the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Philadelphia. He married
Signe, previously married in Germany and a generation younger,
and they moved to Florida, where she survived him and retired in 1999.

Children

1. Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell, Jr., b. Abt 1952 d. Bef 2011 (Age ~ 58 years) [Father: Adopted,Mother: Adopted]

Family ID F60991 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 24 Jul 2023

Event Map

	Birth - 20 Aug 1899 - Castlecomer, Kilkenny, Ireland
	Marriage - 20 Mar 1958 - Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA
	Death - 20 Aug 1963 - Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, USA

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Sources

[S1715] Rev. James Tunstead Burtchaell III, C.S.C., Family Database of Burtchaell Family: The Genealogy of the Burtchaell Family, (Name: Self; Date: 2002, 153 pages + xvii;), 153 pages + xvii pages in the Preface. Descendants of Michael Burtchaell (1648–1732) of Burgage More, County Wicklow, Province of Leinster, Ireland are covered in the great majority of the book. This line of the Burtchaell family is called the "Leinster Burtchaells." Included in the Leinster line are the descendants of New Orleans immigrant Nicholas Burtchaell (1826–1890), who form the "New Orleans line" of Burtchaells, included on pages 24, 45–47, 69, 84–85, 97–103, 113–116. The index to the entire manuscript appears on pages 141–153. For those users who have full viewing rights to information and media for living individuals in the family tree, the entire Burtchaell family manuscript is available (click on the attached pdf file). However, the manuscript is not viewable on the regular public site since it contains information on some living individuals; instead, the preface can be viewed via the link below. Gerald Burtchaell of New Orleans (a great grandson of Nicholas Burtchae.
Nicholas Burtchaell (1826–1890) and his wife Annie Dinnin Burtchaell (1840–1917) "are the scions of the New Orleans Burtchaells" (page 46).
Regarding Nicholas Burtchaell, who immigrated to New Orleans in the mid-1850s:

Also from page 46: "His story was unknown to Dublin bachelor chronicler George Dames Burtchaell (1853–1921) who simply noted him as 'died unmarried.' Nicholas emigrated on the same ship as young Annie Dinnin; they met after disembarking in New Orleans and married soon afterward.

"The family retains the recollection that Nicholas fled Ireland. One story (Wyona Denstedt) is that he and a cousin were out riding and the cousin was killed. Nicholas, disguised as a negro, then emigrated. Another concurs in that Nicholas had to sneak out of Ireland. There is further belief that one not his brothers wished him to come up to Canada to take our his business.

"Unlike most other Burtchaell branches, the Louisiana Burtchaells have been Catholics. Their chronicler has been Gerald J. Burtchaell, who in 1971 studied the genealogy and occupations of the Louisiana Burtchaells."
https://vitter.org/Genealogy/Documents/TheGenealogyoftheBurtchaellFamilyPreface.pdf
At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.

Died	Died of a growth in her abdomen that was inoperabl

Family	Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell, b. 20 Aug 1899, Castlecomer, Kilkenny, Ireland
Married	UNKNOWN

Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell (I77436)

Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell

Elizabeth ?

? ?

Signe E. Aigner

Trevor Cecil Burtchaell

Emily Beacham

Elizabeth ?

? ?

Signe E. Aigner

Joseph Lawrence Burtchaell, Jr.