He was assessed to Land Tax on property in Little New Street in 1796 from where he had entered a mark at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the same year, in Vine Street unti1 1815 and assessed as Michael Rourke at Burleigh Court, Burleigh Street until 1823 both latter properties being in the St Martin in the Fields area.
He was listed in the London Poll Books as a silversmith at 5 Burleigh Street, Strand in 1820.