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  1. Michael Kelly: Birth: 1803. Death: APR 1876 in Cahercullen, Cree, Co Clare, Ireland

  2. Mary Ann Kelly: Birth: 1820 in Co. Clare, Ireland. Death: 1908 in Kansas, USA

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Notes
a. Note:   In County Clare, Kilmacduane Parish, near the village of Cree is a cemetery where the family of my cousin, Michael Martin Kelly, took me during my visit to their home There are two types of parishes in Ireland, church and civil. One like Kilmacduane is a civil parish not a church related parish When Michael Kelly b. 1853 was buried there in 1947, his obituary stated he was buried in the "family burial ground". The information on the Timothy Kelly headstone gives the age, place of birth(of Gower) and the date of death. The stone was given in memory of her husband by his wife Mary O'Conner. The compiler has chosen Timothy Kelly as father of Michael Kelly born in 1803 because the townland of Gower is later mentioned in letters left to the compiler indicating a kinship to those from Gower and those in Cahercullen. Cahercullen is the townland in which the Kelly family has lived since at least 1855 when the Griffith Evaluatuion of Land was compiled. Michael Kelly b. 1803 was noted as living there. This townland has been spelled cahercullin and caheraghacullin. The current occupants spell it cahercullen. Gower is also a townland in the same parish. The children of this Timothy are those mentioned in the letters between Michael Kelly b. 1803, and his sons in America as his brothers. The letters to my grand father Timothy Joesph Kelly b. 1850 and his brothers from their father Michael mention family members in Ireland and in America. In a letter from Thomas Kelly and my grandfather, Timothy, he relates he was going to leave the coal fields and move close to his Uncle Arthur O"Keefe who lived in Kansas. The wife of Arthur O'Keefe was Mary Ann Kelly sister to Michael Kelly of Cahercullen. John Kelly, a son of Michael b. 1803 wrote his brother, Timothy, on December 9, 1878 in which he refers to their sister visting Chicago and of a cousin Ann Kelly of Gower. This would indicate that the Michael Kelly who lived in the townland of Cahercullen was related to Kellys who lived in the townland of Gower, Michael wrote his sons on January 4, 1874: "Your uncle Tim is well and his family is well. Himself (this signifies that Tim is the head of the family) and his Mrs. were at the house after getting your letter to see me. Your uncle John and family are well and are all working." The earliest letter from Michael to his son in America is dated October 10, 1872. These letters may have been written to one or more sons but they were passed from son to son. It reads in part: "Dear sons Thomas and John: I received your kind and welcomed letter and we are glad to hear from you being well and in good health thanks be to God. Arthur O'Keeffe wrote to Tim Kelly saying that brother Daniel had died and you had some sickness.....dear sons we are in trouble about you being so far under ground in that dangerous place........ I mean to let you know that Tim wrote a letter to Daniel Murphy that he was in a good state of health thank God and he is doing well doing brick laying. Tim, if you have a chance to this letter mind yourself in that strange place far from your good brothers Be a steady man there. Keep from drink as you are in a strange place now.. Mr. Hunt's sister is living in Chicago and Mr. Hunt would like Tim and herself to know one another. She is married to John Ryan and her address is N256 Buddan Street Chicago." This first Kelly, based on his tombstone, was from Gower. In 1825, a Timothy Kelly is noted on the Allotment Books for County Clare in the townland of Gower. In the same set of records, there is no Kelly mentioned in Cahercullin. All of the letters given to the compiler were from "Cahercullin, Cree, Ireland". Michael J. Kelly Springfield, MO 2006 .By Michael Jean Kelly, 2006


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