His wife was the daughter of Dr.Nugent, an Irish physician once settled at Bath.

One story is that Burke consulted him in one of his visits to the west of England, and fell in love with his daughter.

Another version makes Burke consult him after Dr.Nugent had removed to London; and tells how the kindly physician, considering that the noise and bustle of chambers over a shop must hinder his patient's recovery, offered him rooms in his own house.
However these things may have been, all the evidence shows Burke to have been fortunate in the choice or accident that bestowed upon him his wife.

Mrs.Burke, like her father, was, up to the time of her marriage, a Catholic.

Good judges belonging to her own sex describe her as gentle, quiet, soft in her manners, and well-bred.