Early life

Burke was born on the 6 may in 1820. In Irish. His dad, James Hardiman Burke was a solder. All of Burke's brothers (and himself) grew up they all became solders as well. After a few years with the army he came to Australia. He went to Australia to live here. Burke wanted to be a police officer. He got the job. He would go around the gold filed and he met Wills. After a few years, the government wanted a person to go to one end of Australia to the other. There was a massive prize. He wanted to got people and one of them was Wills.

Early life of Burke