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Kilkenny / Re: Kealy family from Kilkenny
« on: Thursday 12 March 15 17:51 GMT (UK)  »
I have made some progress since my post on Dec. 14th.
 
I found an actual record on FamilySearch for the marriage at Castleinch of Thomas Ireland and Bridget Kealy.  Bridget, as did Julia in Massachusetts marriage record, states that the father is Patrick.  Patrick is a laborer. Thomas and his father, William, are both listed as sextons.

I am back in touch with an Ireland family connection.  She is connected through Richard Ireland of Tipperary who married Catherine Cole.  We have come to think that Richard was the brother of William Ireland, father of Thomas. The marriage of Richard and Catherine produced the male lines where Cole was the middle name for Thomas, Samuel, William, and Richard Cole Ireland.  Thomas and Samuel emigrated to Connecticut.  Richard and William stay in Ireland.  We think that the William C. Ireland found in Kilkenny in the 1900's is the right William Cole Ireland.  Samuel C. Ireland is found as pallbear in Connecticut for my William Ireland, son of Thomas, sexton in Kilkenny and married to Bridget Kealy.  There are too many cross connections involving these Ireland families.  William even sent for Elizabeth Cole, aunt of Thomas Cole and Samuel Cole Ireland, and married Ellizabeth in Connecticut.

I have found record mentions for what appears to be several Patrick Kealys and for Bridget Kealys in Kilkenny.  Since they are only index listings I can only guess that one or more records are for my Patrick and Bridget.  Bridget Kealy married Thomas Ireland in Castleinch in 1845.  We have never thought that the Kealy/Irelands were Catholic but were devout high Anglicans. 

I have not found any records for a John Roe (b.1812) m. Mary Ann Kealy (b.1813/14) and their children Robert, Julia, Nicholas, John, Elizabeth Frances, Edward Thomas, and George (born approx. 1840-1855. 

I think there should be a burial record for Thomas Ireland and Bridget Kealy that gives me something new to research.  Patrick Kealy should be buried in Kilkenny.  Since I know of the three Kealy sisters, Mary Ann, Bridget, and Julia, there should be maybe more girls or some males to find.


Any help is appreciated.  Bonnie in Arizona

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Kilkenny / Re: Kealy family from Kilkenny
« on: Sunday 14 December 14 23:00 GMT (UK)  »
I, too, have a Kealy name in Kilkenny.  Thomas Ireland married Bridget Kealy in Kilkenny.  They had one known son, William Ireland m. Eliza Mary Stephens.  I have the basic records found on line.  Bridget (b. abt 1820) had two known sisters, Julia (b. abt 1824) and Mary Ann (b. abt 1813).  Julia gives her parent's names as Patrick Kealy and Mary Ann on her marriage reg. in MA.  It makes sense that there were other siblings with the birth years spaced over 10 years.
Julia and Mary Ann are CofE to the point of the Church being a focal point of their wills.  I think Bridget and Thomas are married in a Catholic church.  Is this possible?  I have been told that Patrick is a Catholic name.
Julia emigrates to Massachusetts by 1854.  Mary Ann, her husband John Roe and 7 children (born between 1838 and 1850's), emigrate to eastern Ontario by 1856.  Bridget and Thomas do not emigrate and Bridget most likely cared for William and Eliza Ireland's children when Eliza died.  William Ireland emigrated to the US by 1880. The Ireland children, once adults, emigrate to the US/Canada by 1886. 
Mary Ann and John Roe were from Enniskerry, Wicklow, according to family knowledge. No one has said Mary Ann was from Kilkenny originally.
Could all of the Kealys be from Kilkenny and somehow Mary Ann is found in Wicklow? Was there movement of single females around 1835-1850?  John Roe supposedly has a Crown Land Grant in Ontario.  Wouldn't he have to have been protestant?  There is an Ireland connection somehow to Tipperary.  Wicklow, Kilkenny, and Tipperary aren't that far apart. 
I pose these questions because I have found Bridget where I don't think she should be and where are her sisters and family?
I just read someone's post about the Kealys and a Patrick is named. 

Bonnie

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