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I should add a little bit about Paul Kelly actually he was known as Paul O' Kelly.. Yes he did live in Australia. I met him once when he came to New York to visit his brother John Patrick Kelly.that was 1952 or 53.I went to visit Australia in 1989 and when in Sydney I looked up his death records.He was married to a woman by the name of Dewer. They did not have children and he lived in the Bondi Beach area that is north of Sydney. When I met him in 1952 or 53 he told me that he was a pharmacist and he rode his horse to work every day.he also brought my sisters and I boomerangs.  I met  Anne O'Kelly in 1962 or 63. She came to also to visit my grandfather. She told me at the time that she was working for a newspaper in Dublin.  It was Anne who pit me in touch with my priest cousin in Gallway. We had a few letters going back and forth but then they dropped off. He did send me a brief family map and when I find it again I will post it.  I tried to visit him in Ireland in 1984 but he died a couple of years before I got there.

My grandfather John Patrick Kelly was initially a doorman in New York City. He became a corrections officer for the city of New York soon after and was known in that area as "big John" as he stood 6 feet three and weighed about 300lbs.. He worked in the NYC jails known as the "tombs" until he was 75 years old. He died when he was 89. My father, John Michael Kelly lives until he was 92 years of age.