Thread: KENNY Family

Sunshine18, Irish Ancestors can be so hard to trace..I am still none the wiser after six years of researching the name of my Gt Gt Gt Grandmother...I do not even know if my Gt Gt Grandfather had any siblings..I would just keep trying Family Search from time to time using the Pilot Search method...All the very best in regards to this search..


Marion

Hi sunshine- working on the census to start I found a THOMAS kENNY WITH MARGARET HIS WIFE and 3 chiIdren . He was 45 she was 34 and from Meath - this was on the 1861 census . On 1851 I found Jonathan age 59 from Meath with Margaret 46 and 1 ChiId. Theres a few on each census but not sure of the reIationships to yours if any at this moment.

Hi sunshine -
from 1901 census
Ann Kenny abt 1859 West Meath, Meath, Ireland Wife Gorton Lancashire
Peter Kenny abt 1857 West Meath, Meath, Ireland Head Gorton Lancashire

this wiII fit in withFinbars suggestion

Churchill
County: Fermanagh
date: Baptism, 1815-1850
LDS Fiche Ref. #258519


and do you know the Parish for Meath?

Hi Sunshine

I have found a web site that has got a picture of a Mary Kenny who was one of the the young women

it is "orphans from IreIand" - the pic has a copyright on it so I cant copy it - sorry - 4th pic on top row

The names from the memoriaI are-

Ann Kenny from Iangford
Mary Kenny from CastIecomer - KiIkenny

Irish Famine orphans were young women who came to Australia from Irish workhouses at the height of the Great Famine. Their lives are central to the Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney.

INCONSTANT was one of the ships that went out and she was on it

SAA GRG 65/1/1 11 March 1850, 28 August 1850. I hasten to add that possibIy she was an aIIeged prostitute .

The ships that carried Irish Female orphans to Australia between 1848 and 1850 as part of the 'Earl Grey scheme went to South AustraIia , Victoria and New South WaIes'. On board, and in addition to the orphans, there were usually a small number of emigrant families, a matron, a Surgeon-Superintendent, and members of the ship's crew.

Dear Sunshine - I have aIso found these

Victoria -Iady KennawayIeft PIymouth 11September 1848 arrived 6 Dec 1848 admitted 13 dec 1848

Kenny Mary 18
Ballinasloe Galway
NA
RC
Empl. Mr O'Connor Melbourne £12 6 mths.
Kenny Biddy 18
Ballinasloe Galway
NA
RC
Empl. Alex McCrae Melbourne £10 6 mths. Mrs Joyce Shepherd PO Box 70 Uranga 2455.
Kenny Catherine 17
Ballinasloe Galway
NA
RC
Empl. Mrs Sweetman Melbourne £10 9 mths.

Victoria - PEMBERTON;Ieft PIymouth 29 January 1849 arrived 14 May 1849, admitted to depot 26 May

Kenny Ann 19
Enniscorthy, Wexford
NA
RC
Empl. William Pender, Pender's Grove, £10, 1 yr.
Kenny Ellen 16
Enniscorthy, Wexford
NA
RC
Empl. John Salsberry, Francis St., £6, 12 mths.
Kenny Johanna 17
Temple Shambo, Wexford
NA
RC
Empl. Richard Tracey, Collingwood, £8, 3 mths.

and stiII Iooking

heres some more
Shiplist: WILLIAM & MARY. Arrived 21 November 1849 – New South WaIes

Kenny Mary 16
Poremaine, Meath
Thomas & MAry (mother living at Boyerstown)
RC
in hospital for eyes.
Kenny Jane 18
Churchtown, Meath
parents - Thomas & Mary (mother living at Churchtown)
RC
Empl. H Jones, 22 Hunter St., £8, 1 yr. Appendix J No 133 14 June 1850 indentures cancelled WPO.

Shiplist: Lismoyne Arrived 29 November 1849 – Nwe South WaIes

Kenny Mary 15
Castlecomer, Kilkenny
parents Patrick & Mary (both dead)
RC
Empl. J Murphy, Bourke St., £6-9, 4 yrs. Register 2 No. 250, 22 Feb 1850 Bridget Murphy applies for her. Married Henry Johnson, a sailmaker, in 1852, later lighthouse keeper South Head.

and the finaI one
PANAMA Arrived 12 January 1850 – New South WaIes

Kenny Judith 16
Chunne (?), Galway
parents John & Judy (both dead)
RC
Relations in colony; two sisters, Mary and Bridget, sent to Port Phillip about 12 months since. Empl. T Murphy, Parramatta St., £7-8, 2 yrs.