Bernard McKenna

Bernard McKenna in the

New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1850 Record details

Name Bernard McKenna

Arrival Date    May 1, 1847

Age      10

Gender            M (Male)

Port of Arrival New York

Port of Departure       Liverpool

Place of Origin            Great Britain

Ship    Elsinore

The passenger list also lists

John McKenna age 39

Margaret age 60 (Note: May be John's Mother)

Mary age 39 (Mary-Ann John's wife)

Bernard age 10

Johah age 6

Margaret age 4

Elizabeth age 2

Family Identification 569639

Microfilm Serial Number      M237

Microfilm Roll Number          66

 Bernard’s parents Parents John McKenna  Anna Hughes

Bernard arrived in NYC aboard the SS Elsinore on May 1, 1847 at the age of ten. (Sometime in his adult life he traveled to San Francisco where he started his family. The church in which he was married was burned during the "Great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906. At the start of this Genealogy research it was assumed that all records were lost during the fire. However, in 2004 Tom Guldner visited San Francisco and found that Old St. Mary's Cathederal exists with the same outer walls as when Bernard and Ellen were married. The book of weddings still exists and a copy of the page of his wedding is now part of this history. More importantly, the names of both Bernards's parents and Ellen's parents were listed in the book also

here is the rest of the family on this ship [NOTE: "MARY" COULD EASILY BE A "MARY ANN"]:

McKenna, Margaret 60 Female Great Britain Liverpool Elsinore 1 May 1847 (May be John's mother)

McKenna, Mary 39 Female Great Britain Liverpool Elsinore 1 May 1847 (John's wife)

McKenna, John 39 Male Great Britain Liverpool Elsinore 1 May 1847

McKenna, Bernard 10 Male Great Britain Liverpool Elsinore 1 May 1847

McKenna, Jonah 6 Male Great Britain Liverpool Elsinore 1 May 1847

McKenna, Margaret 4 Female Great Britain Liverpool Elsinore 1 May 1847

McKenna, Elizabeth 2 Female Great Britain Liverpool Elsinore 1 May 1847