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Mary Lenehan

Mary Lenehan

Born
1834-01-01 12:00:00
Died
1913-07-01 12:00:00
Gender
Female
Place of migration
Migrated to/Born in USA

I believe born in either Cork or Limerick to Daniel Lenihan and Elizabeth (or Mary or Elizabeth Mary or Mary Elizabeth) Corbett but I have not found definitive baptismal record -- only a baptismal record of I believe an older brother Patrick.  Surname spelled many ways -- Lenihan, Linehan, Lenehan, Leneghan, etc.   

Mary's family emigrated to the USA and she married Patrick Joseph Cagney in Brooklyn, NY in 1866. She later moved to Chicago in 1872 and died there in 1913.   

I believe that her mother died young and that her father Daniel remarried Catherine Murphy before emigrating to the USA.  A half-brother, Thomas, was born in Rathkeale (according to his Brooklyn obituary). 

 

Associated communities

Limerick

County Limerick, or Luimneach in Irish, is located in the med-west region of Ireland.  Limerick became Ireland’s inaugural National City of Culture in 2014 with a wide variety of events happening around the city.  We have a population of approximately 195,175.  We look forward to  helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.   

Other ancestors in this community

Buildings in this community

  • Old Abbey House, Shanagolden, Co Limerick

    Location: Limerick

  • Treanmanagh TOWNLAND

    Location: Limerick

    Treanmanagh, Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick

  • Kilpeacon House in 1850

    Location: Limerick

    Kilpeacon

  • Bunratty Castle

    Location: Limerick

Timeline events in this community

  • 1860s

    St. Patrick's Graveyard

    <p>Parish Priest</p>

    1861-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1880s

    Foundation of South Liberties GAA Club

    1884-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Irish press warns against Jamaican Indentured Servitude

    <p>The theme was always the same: the pestilential climate of the island, the reduction of poor emigrants to slaves, the severity and cruelty of the planters (and planter-dominated Assembly clinging to every vestige of oppression) and, of course, the absence of priests and chapels.</p>

    1840-12-01 12:00:00

  • 1880s

    1887 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1888-04-29 12:00:00

Mary Lenehan