Looking for Patrick Joseph Kearney & Family

[myluck!]

It must be something in the name My Kearneys have me stumped also!!
They are Dublin/Wicklow originally but the records or lack thereof don't help in the search
If I come across anything that rings a bell with Denis etc. I'll reply

[gracie23]

Thanks much MyLuck ... if you send me your names I'll keep an eye out for them too!
Because I can't break down my "Denis" brick wall or even connect him to my Patrick, I can't get any further back to Dublin or wherever. Plus you know, I am sure, how hard research is with such common Irish names!
At this point, I swear I am considering hypnosis to go back and try and remember things my long deceased grandmom told me when I was little as I have nothing else to go on at this point!!!
I am that desperate!!

Yhanks again,
Deborah

[eadaoin]

Francis Emmett
Patrick Sarsfield
Edward Parnell

Emmet, Sarsfield and Parnell are all Irish patriots - Robert Emmet, Patrick Sarsfield and Charles Stewart Parnell.
I'd say the boys names are a political statement ..

in OHs family after 1916 two of the children were given the second names De Valera and O'Rahilly - also for patriotic reasons.

eadaoin

[gracie23]

Thank you Eadaoin..that has been brought to my attention, so my hope of using names as clues is now moot!
Have a good day,
Deborah

[gracie23]

Finally smashed my 10 year brick wall for my GG Grandfather Patrick Kearney! Sharing my joy with my fellow rootschatters as no one in my family can truly understand the joy!
Patiently waited for the new Irish Genealogy records to be posted..and no luck there. I thought I was done for good now.
And I even lit white candles to my ancestors and talked to them constantly as to why can't I find you Yes, I did. I admit it.
After no luck with the new postings, I just had a gut feeling to look for his mother Mary Quinlan (who he named in his marriage certificate) on Ants*y. Done this many, many times before.

So...followed my gut, clicked on a census record...and there it was! 1850, in Massachusetts, Mary Quinlan married to Richard Quinlan, numerous other Quinlan children and Patrick "Corney", my gg grandfather

What I did not realize and something I have now learned..when he said his parents were Mary Quinlan and Denis Kearney, and I could never link this two up anywhere, I now realized his mother was Mary Quinlan because she was married to a Richard Quinlan at the time of his marriage! Quinlan was not her maiden name

And of course, now I have to find out if his father, Denis and  mother Mary were ever married at all when he was born. There is a short window of time from Patrick's birth in 1839, to his mother being married to another man (Richard Quinlan, and having her first child with him in 1843. And of course, his mother's real maiden name!

So don't ever give up looking It took me two whole days to actually believe I knocked this brick wall down! What a great feeling. (that only another addicted genealogist could understand!!)

Thanks for listening! I feel so much better now

Deb

[johnjensen]

Well done, what a great discovery.

There is one possible baptism record on www.rootsireland.ie that at least matches Patrick's details.  By an amazing coincidence it's in County Waterford; those records have only been made available within the last week.  It's in 1838, father Denis, mother Mary and listed as Patrick Kearny.  You'll have to buy the record if you want mother's maiden name.

As a matter on interest where was the oldest Quinlan child born? Was it in USA or Ireland?  If any Quinlan births in Ireland can you list names and years?

[myluck!]

Great news Deborah;
Gives me food for tought while searching CORNEY!

I can relate to the candles; I have on occasion found myself asking ancestors did they ever want to be found!

Hope that you find more now......

[gracie23]

John,
Thank you for that information, I will have to check those records out. All of the Quinlan children were born in Massachusetts. From family lore, my gg grand came from either Kerry or Dublin, or even England, but I have not been able to confirm any of this yet. I realized early on that my gg grand did not name any of his children "Denis" after his father, nor has the name ever been used again in my Carney/Kearney line, so he must have had a very limited relationship with him in his lifetime, if at all. Either his father died when he was very young and his mother remarried, or his father..well we all know how that one goes!
Another limb of the tree to search..but with more hope this time!

Myluck: I also have a gut feeling our families are intertwined somehow as some of your names are familiar to mine...maybe one day we'll find that missing link.

Deb