BRENNON / KENNEDY

[margrace]

Hi Can anyone help me. I believe my Great Grandfather and Grandmother were married in the church in Ardee sometime before or after 1880. Their names were Catherine Brennon and George Kennedy.

Family history says that George's father worked for the Roxton's on their estate there. Family history also says that this man may have owned a pub in the Dublin area.

I can find nothing on these people.

[Christopher]

Hello Margrace

The Red House belonged to W. Parkinson Ruxton, Esq. It is described in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 as a handsome demesne. Source: archiseek online architecture resources.

Griffiths Valuation of Co. Louth, 1854 lists several Ruxtons ....

George Ruxton, Charlestown, Charlestown, Louth
George Ruxton, Cookstown, Charlestown, Louth
George Ruxton, Rahanna, Charlestown, Louth
Rep. Wm P. Ruxton, Roodstown, Stabannan, Louth
William Ruxton, Tisdale Street, Townparks Ardee, Louth
William Ruxton, Tisdale Street, Townparks Ardee, Louth
George Ruxton, Market Street, Townparks Ardee, Louth
Mrs Parkinson Ruxton, Ballybailie, Ardee, Louth
William Ruxton, Townparks Ardee, Louth
William Ruxton, Market Street, Townparks Ardee, Louth
William Ruxton, Market Street, Townparks Ardee, Louth

It looks as though W. Parkinson Ruxton had died between 1837 and 1854.

[margrace]

But aren't there Ruxton's still living on that estate?

[Christopher]

But aren't there Ruxton's still living on that estate?

No there are no members of the family in the town today. I phoned a friend who lives in the area and he told me that some of the family died in Ardee and others emigrated to America. There are plaques and memorials to the family in the local church. Their estate now belongs to the North Eastern Health Board and the house is a Nursing Home.

Three Ruxtons are mentioned on the 1865 Co. Louth List of Voters ....

George Ruxton, Rahanna, Ardee
William Young Ruxton, Nth Portland Street Dublin and Ardee
William Ruxton, Ardee House, Ardee

[margrace]

Thanks Christopher. It still is a mystery to me. My Great grandmother Catherine was Roman Catholic and the man she married, my  great grandfather was Protestant. They immigrated to Paisley in Scotland around the late 1880's then came to Canada, Montreal, around 1907.

It is frustrating because I cannot find any information on them. I have even lost tract of most of their children.

My mother said at one time that instead of being Kennedy the might have been Gunnity. Now isn't that a old Irish name? But I do know that George was Protestant