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