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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Michael kennerk: Birth: 05 DEC 1867. Death: 23 DEC 1948

  2. Norah kennerk: Birth: 1868 in New York City, Bronx, New York, USA. Death: 1934 in Dublin, Ireland

  3. Margaret kennerk: Birth: 1869 in New York, USA.

  4. Cornelius kennerk: Birth: 1872 in New York, USA. Death: 23 FEB 1966 in Dublin, Ireland

  5. Unknown Kennerk: Birth: 01 NOV 1873.

  6. Mary kennerk: Birth: 1874 in New York, New York. Death: 08 NOV 1964

  7. William John Kennerk: Birth: 16 OCT 1876 in Granby Lane, Dublin, Ireland. Death: 05 OCT 1973 in 110 Inchicore rd. Dublin, Ireland


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary kennerk: Birth: 1886 in Dublin, Ireland. Death: 10 AUG 1964 in Dublin, Ireland


Sources
1. Title:   Baptism parish registers
Page:   Micofilm at the National Library, Kildare st. Dublin, Ireland
Author:   Dublin Heritage Society
2. Title:   Collection: Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes 1845-1958
Page:   Film number: 101735 Volume: 2 Page: 273
3. Title:   1870 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003.Original data - 1870. United States. Ninth Census of the United States, 1870. Washington, D.C. National Archives and Records Administration. M593, RG29, 1,761 rolls.Minnesota. M;
4. Title:   !911 Census Ireland
5. Title:   Collection: Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes 1845-1958
Page:   Film number: 101250 Volume: 17 Page: 601

Notes
a. Note:   H95
Note:   BMD indexes of Ireland, Cornelius living at 55 Wellington St. Dublin, and Eliza living at 39 Britain Street (Parnell St) at time of marriage. Witnessed by WIlliam Fennell and Anne Brady (mother?)
b. Note:   Cornelius Kinnerk was born in the townland of Ballyvaddock, County Limerick in March 1839, just two months after the 'Night of the Big Wind'. When Con was taken by his parents to be baptised, the thatch roof of the chapel had not yet been fully repaired and would have been partially exposed to the harsh March winds.
  The house into which Cornelius was born was that of his grandfather, John Kenirk. The community into which he was received was small, close-knit and rural. The land itself comprised a mere one hundred and seventeen acres and lay two miles north of the main town of Askeaton, off the road to Ballysteen. The countryside - rolling and fertile, was punctuated by a small river and the presence of the nearby Gortnagranagher Lough.
  The parish register shows that Con was the son of Cornelius Kinnerk and Bridget Gearin. Ballysteen was the nearest town and it is likely that Cornelius would have attended the National School there. It is also likely that the effects of the famine in County Limerick during themid 1840s had a profound effect on the young boy and that the suffering of his neighbouring people encouraged him in later years to become a Fenian sympathiser, perhaps even an active member.
  As Con stood at the altar in the Pro-Cathedral, he might have cast a thought to the fact that just five years earlier Cullen had refused both a Requiem Mass and a funeral service in the same Cathedral for prominent nationalist Terence Bellew McManus. McManus, who had taken partin the 1848 rebellion, was deported to Australia and later settled inthe United States, where he died in 1861. Several months later, his body was exhumed by an organisation representing the civil arm of the IRB called 'The Brotherhood of St. Patrick', but the denial by the Archbishop to facilitate their request caused some friction.
  Fortunately however, the only problems that the young couple encountered in 1866 were with the weather.
  Surviving shipping records show that Con arrived in New York with hisbrother John on a ship called 'The City of Washington' on 22nd June 1868. It would also seem that their mother Bridget travelled with themand she appears again on the Federal Census for 1870. This would have made sense, since, with the death of her husband just a year and a half earlier and faced with the imminent departure of her sons she would have been left with no family in Dublin. When one takes into consideration the closeness of familial bonds in Ireland at that time, it seems unlikely that the family would have left her behind. Instead, theKennerks travelled together to Queenstown to meet the boat on its wayfrom Liverpool. The ship's manifest shows that all three travelled in steerage - the least expensive passage to be had.
c. Note:   Senile Dementia. Died Mayor Street, Dublin. By this date, he had moved in with his daughter Maimie, having lived for some years between different houses, including the lodging house owned by his son William Kennerk in Werburgh Street.
d. Note:   Elizabeth Flanagan was a protestant and special dispensation had to be given for them to marry in a Catholic church.


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