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Kerry / Re: Kearneys from Castleisland (Kilmurry)
« on: Saturday 27 August 11 02:08 BST (UK) »
Hi Shelley,
I also had a look at my extended Kearney tree and can't find a James born in 1886. I agree with Amy that the Cecil seems to indicate a Protestant background. Or perhaps his mother's maiden name was Cecil? I did however find a record of a James Kearney b. Oct.-Dec.1886 in Kinsale. No other details were given. If this is your James he could have come from a very well to do branch of the Kearneys-details on ; http://www.landedestates.ie, but one where they had to change their name from Cuthbert to Kearney to inherit land from a James Kearney who died without heirs!
I also had a look at my extended Kearney tree and can't find a James born in 1886. I agree with Amy that the Cecil seems to indicate a Protestant background. Or perhaps his mother's maiden name was Cecil? I did however find a record of a James Kearney b. Oct.-Dec.1886 in Kinsale. No other details were given. If this is your James he could have come from a very well to do branch of the Kearneys-details on ; http://www.landedestates.ie, but one where they had to change their name from Cuthbert to Kearney to inherit land from a James Kearney who died without heirs!