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From: "Eilis O'Hara" <>
Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] Re: NYALBANY-D Digest V04 #177
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:45:28 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <e2.1fd1468.2e884f46@aol.com>


--- wrote:
> Thanks, Ellis, for suggestions for my Patrick
> Kennedy. I tried the census
> route first, but to no avail. Family records only
> say "Schenectady" as the
> birthplace of Mary Ann Kennedy.
>
> Mary Ann's husband, Michael Dalton, is another
> stumper. According to family
> lore, he came as a young child to the Goderich area,
> Huron County, Ontario,
> around 1853. I can find no record of his family
> there, although he lost a
> parent early and if it were his father, the hunt
> gets more diffiuclt if his
> mother remarried. We understand there were
> half-siblings in Canada, so I am
> surmising that is exactly what happened. Michael
> shows up only in 1874 applying
> for a marriage license to Mary Ann Kennedy in
> Chicago. From there on, it's a
> piece of cake.
>
> Many more peat bogs to look in before I find these
> folks, I fear! Thanks
> again for your many helpful responses on this site.
>
> Kathy Gire



You may want to recheck the US Federal Census (and if
you can the 1855 NYState Census) using the soundex for
the Kennedy surname.

Irish surnames in the 1850 US Federal census were
often not spelled correctly because the enumerators
had difficulty understanding the Irish accent and
Irish surnames. That was the first census with high
volumes of Irish emigrants.

I've seen Kennedy spelled Canady, Candy, Kanaly,
Kenneally as well as other more mystifying versions.
Hopefully that will help narrow down where in
Schenectady they may have lived to find church
records. It may also help identify where he may have
been buried if he was buried locally.

You could check the RC cemeteries through the Diocese
of Albany website at http://www.rcda.org for the
possibility Patrick died and was buried locally.

Mary Ann and Michael Dalton's civil and religious
marriage and death records, obituaries, wills,
tombstone inscriptions and naturalisation records may
help identify the Kennedy and Dalton place of
origination in Ireland. In addition, their children's
civil and religious birth/baptismal, marriage and
death records too may help.

The 1900 US Federal Census included citizenship
information which should help identify when Michael
Dalton may have become naturalised and you could then
check his naturalisation records.

Here's a link to information you can check in US
records: http://www.genealogybranches.com/irish.html

Some items on the list won't be relevant, for example,
the Social Security Death Index.

There's also a Chicago Irish Database. You may want
to post a message on the Chicago List or the Chicago
Message Board for a look up in that database. There
are several people on those sites who do free
look-ups.

Eilis O'Hara

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