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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Michael kennerk: Birth: 24 AUG 1834 in Adare, Limerick, Ireland. Death: 21 NOV 1915

  2. Cornelius Kinnerk: Birth: 12 MAR 1839 in Askeaton, Limerick, Ireland. Death: 13 JAN 1922 in 8 Upper Mayor st. Dublin, Ireland

  3. Honora Kinnerk: Birth: 1842.

  4. John kennerk: Birth: 1845 in Askeaton, Limerick, Ireland. Death: 1893 in New York, USA

  5. William kennerk: Birth: 15 AUG 1846 in Ballyvaddock, Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Death: 31 JUL 1919 in New York, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Griffith's Valuation 1847-1864
Page:   Position on Page 22, Printing Date 1850, Act 9&10 Sheet Number 11, Map Reference 1

Notes
a. Note:   H107
Note:   Buried in Glasnevin cemetery Dublin, also in the same plot, Cornelius Kennerk his son and a Margaret Gearin in 1885. The headstone was errected by Bridget Kennek his wife.
b. Note:   By 1847, at the height of the Irish potato famine, Con had moved his family out of his father's home and across to the adjacent townland ofMitchelstown, where they took a small house, once again on the Westropp estate. There, the picture is clearer than heretofore - the landowners were the Earl of Carrick and Edward Massey with Edmund Westropp acting as the middleman. According to George Westropp, "Edmund was renting out land in the townlands of both Ballysteen and Mitchelstown andoften for other Westropps"
  In stark contrast with the Westropp home, Griffith's Valuation gives the worth of Cornelius Kennerk's house in Mitchelstown as a mere eightshillings. Next door lived Catherine Westropp and on the other side was Margaret Fitzgerald. Despite a determined search using a mid 19thcentury Ordnance Survey map, it would seem that there is no remainingtrace of any of these houses.
  During the 1850s, he took his wife and four sons to Dublin to find work with the many well-established English stone-working firms that hadset up in the city. These required skilled labour, such as that which the Kennerk family could provide.
c. Note:   Old Con died just two months after his son Con's wedding, on 9th December 1866. He died at home in Wellington Street, aged just 54. It was a Sunday and he was buried the following Monday. There was scarcelytime to wake the corpse!
  There is no record of Con Senior's death at the registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. This is not unusual, since civil registration did not begin until 1864. Furthermore, for a number of years after registration commenced, entries could be haphazard. It is entirely possible that Con Senior succumbed to Cholera and this might also explain the swiftness of his burial. The outbreak of this disease during the second half of 1866 led to a massive increase in emigration.
 Surviving grave papers show that the interment fee was 10/-, paid to the Dublin Cemeteries' Office who had their offices at 7 Lower Ormond Quay. Con was survived by his wife, Bridget Kennerk (nee Gearin) and she moved shortly afterwards to no. 2 Upper Dominick Street.


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