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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Kate McMenamin: Birth: 1844 in County Tyrone, Ireland. Death: 1920

  2. Michael McMenamin: Birth: 1846 in County Tyrone, Ireland. Death: 1907 in Clifton Park, NY

  3. Owen McMenamin: Birth: 1848 in County Tyrone, Ireland. Death: 1892 in Chicago, IL

  4. James McMenamin: Birth: 1850 in County Tyrone, Ireland. Death: 1918 in County Fermagh, Ireland

  5. Edward "Ned" McMenamin: Birth: 1852 in County Tyrone, Ireland.

  6. Patrick Joseph McMenamin: Birth: 25 MAY 1854 in Termonamongan Parish, County Tyrone, Ireland. Death: 10 JUN 1938 in Afton Township, DeKalb County, IL

  7. Hugh McMenamin: Birth: 25 AUG 1856 in County Tyrone, Ireland. Death: 1936 in Sycamore, IL

  8. Henry McMenamin: Birth: 1857 in County Tyrone, Ireland. Death: 1920 in Edenreagh, Ireland

  9. John McMenamin: Birth: 1860 in County Tyrone, Ireland.


Notes
a. Note:   Born about 1815. Died at age 62? His brother Ned emigrated to New York, a farmer. James and Anne, by Joseph Patrick McMenamin
  "It is with James and Anne (and their children) we start to find records of the McMenamins of County Tyrone. Before their time, family records were not kept; it was illegal to keep official entries of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths in Ireland's Catholic churches. James was the son of Michael and Mary. We believe Mary's maiden name was (probably) Quinn. We know from Jamie's Letter to Joe that Michael and Mary had at least two children, James and Ann. However, we do not know if they had others. We do find in the document "Earliest McMenamin Tree", a diagram that shows (possibly) four other siblings Edward (Ned), Henry, Mary and Joe. It would have been very uncharacteristic (at this time) for a good Irish Catholic family like the McMenamin's to have only two children, but it is possible (with the higher rates of infant mortality) that only two children may have survived. They had married four years before the famine. James and Anne were poor farm tenants on 17 acres, but James and Anne were lucky to live in an area that raised oats and barley as well as potatoes, one of Tyrone's better agricultural regions. According to Griffith's Land Evaluation survey of 1858 , they leased seventeen acres from an Anne Tennent. James and Anne were of the "lower class" and would have been classified as tenant farmers, a step above "cottier". A cottier was a sub-tenant; working a plot of land only big enough to raise potatoes. In the high ground of Magerkeel Cemetery the bones of James and Anne McMenamin have dissolved into the Irish earth whose nutrients maintained their sturdy bodies. Their graves lack a lasting marker. They, too, had parents and grandparents who are part of our legendary family history. Beyond their time we find fragments and anecdotes that tease the curious."


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