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« on: Tuesday 23 July 13 09:53 BST (UK) »
Hi I hope I can help a little and bring the Kearney research further on. As previously recorded Pauline Kearney was my Grandmother's Aunt. Pauline was a daughter of James Cummins and Alicia Cullen who was a niece of Cardinal Paul Cullen. She married Patrick Kearney and lived at Ballymoon which is just outside Bagnelstown in Co Carlow. When I went looking for my grandmother whose parents died of flu in 1892 within a day of each other she went to live with her aunt Pauline. I spoke to a local historian who told me that the Kearney family were well known in the area and that their grave stones were located in Ballyellin Cementry with Patrick marrying Pauline Cummins they must have been Catholic.
Could I suggest you write to Carlow Library to their Family History Service as the gentleman I spoke with was quite elderly at the time some 8 - 10 years ago and if he has died I know his papers were to be given in to the Library. He was able on that day to go to his files and read out to me the inscription on the relevant grave stone. As for family still on the spot the son who inherited the house and lands did not marry and died in Pauline's life time, her will grant to a son who was a priest her personal property, it was suggested that she had a daughter who married locally and that she took over the property but I have not had time to follow this line.
Cosmo
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