BARTLEY KEARNS & MARY COONEY, KEELOGUES NEAR GLENNAMADDY GALWAY

Bartley Kearns
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Mary Cooney
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Bartley Kearns & Mary Cooney had 14 children in Keelogues West (near Glennamaddy), Galway.

Bridget Elizabeth
1840-1870

Bridget Elizabeth Kearns & Thomas Ivory had children in Brighton, Massachusetts: John William (1867), Joseph Edward (1868-1870).

Rosanna
1844-1883

Rosanna Kearins & James O'Neil had the following children in Boston: Patrick John (1874), Rosanna Marie "Annie" (1876-1918), Emeline Ada (1878), James (1880-1881). Note: James had a child, Michael (1864), with his first wife.

Ellen
1845-1903

Ellen Kearins & Daniel McGann had the following children in Boston: Rose (1871), Daniel William (1875-1877), Evelyn (1881-1974), Catherine (1877), John Thomas (1879), Cecelia (1884-1919), William (1886-1923)

Mary

Patrick C.
1849-1918

Patrick C. Kearins moved from Ireland to NY in 1865, then settled in the Boston area in 1867. He married three times. Patrick Kearns & Mary McLaughlin had two children: Joseph Bartholomew (1874), Sarah Amelia Kearins Conlan (1876). Patrick Kearns & Annie Faulkner had six children: Patrick (1881), Mary Louisa (1884), James F. (1885), Annie (1887), Rose (1888), infant (1890). Patrick Kearins & Mary Faulkner had five children: George F. (1891-1892), Madaline (1894), 2 stillborn infants (1895), Agnes Mary (1896-1973).

James
1851-1921

Bartley

John

John Kearns & Rose Conacur had the following children in Keelogues, Galway: Bartley (1896-1951), Thomas (1901-1984), Mary Kearns Lohan, Ellen

Rose Conacur

Michael Joseph
1854-1931

Michael Joseph Kearins (James Kearns' younger brother) may have changed the spelling of his name just before leaving Ireland. He went to US on the Mohongo Ship (sailed 1851-1872) at age 16 during the famine and stayed with his brother, Patrick in Boston in 1874. He moved to Chicago in October 1874, and married Mary Elizabeth Gannon in 1876. They had 15 children: Mary Elizabeth (1877-1943), James Bartley (1878-1882), Joseph A. (1880-1880), Anne Catherine (1881-1935), Agnes Genevieve (1883-1884), Bartley Edward (1884-1966), Elizabeth Rose (1886-1966), Richard (1888-1935), Edna (1890-1890), Edward Francis (1891-1952), Michael Joseph (1892-1976), James Donatus (1894-1939), Gertrude (1896-1970), Francis Gannon (1899-1940), George Peter (1901-?). Note: Richard (1888-1935) changed his name to Joseph Patrick Cunningham.

Thomas
1868

Thomas Kearns was a Publican/Draper, and not married in 1901.

Publican: tavernkeeper (licensed landlord of a public house)

Draper: merchant in cloth or dry goods, though often used specifically for one who owns or works in a draper's shop or store. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher.

Catherine
1870-1942

Catherine Kearns & John Shanahan (1862) had the following children in Galway: Mary Shanahan Dolan (1905-1979), Thomas (1905-1987). Note: John had one child, Alice May (1898), with his first wife, Mary (1864) who died young. John was a Publican/Grocer.

Keeloges-Creggs Map Creggs Townland, and Keelogues West Townland are both in Glinsk & Kilbegnet Roman Catholic Parish. Glinsk & Kilbegnet baptism and marriage records start in 1836. Creggs is in the Civil Parish of Kilbegnet, Co. Galway. Keelogues West is in the Civil Parish of Ballynakill, Co. Galway. Civil records start in 1864.

In 1857, there was Bart, Thomas, and Owen Kearns in Ussey Townland (5km from Ballymoe on Ballymoe - Creggs road, 10km from Creggs...near Glinsk Castle?). Ussey Townland is in Ballynakill civil parish, and Ballymoe barony.

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