Searching for Kinarney/Kinnarney of Maugherabane/Letterluna/Cadamstown
I am one of the Great Grandchildren of SARAH KINARNEY (Kinnarney), born 1846 at Maugherabane, Cadamsotwn, Parish of Kinnitty or Letterluna. I believe her parents to have been Francis (Frank) Kinarney and Catherine Manifold, and her Paternal Grandmother to have been the Sarah Kinnarney, a widow living in Cadamstown according to the 1821 Irish Census. She emigrated to the United States and married there in 1875, but it is uncertain if she left Ireland as a child, with her parents and youngerr brother John, born 1849, or later.
I am searching for information about her departure from Ireland and arrival in America, and exactly how she was related to the family now living on the farm at Maugherabane.
We know that the current occupants of the farm, John and Patricia RIGNEY and children, are descended from a woman named MARY, first married to a man named Kinnarney, widowed, second marriage to a man named Carroll. I do not know Mary's Maiden name, nor the given name of her first husband, "Mr" Kinnarney.
Mary's son, James, born circa 1883 and died at age 83 years; buried iin Kinnitty.
James' daughter, Eileen, born 1923, married James Rigney
Eileen Kinnarney and James Rigney's son, JOHN RIGNEY, born 1949, lives on the farm today with the family.
I have been in touch with John (Jack) Carroll, descended from "Mary" listed above, hoping he has a clue, and have dug deeply into the information that John and Patricia Rigney have with them at the farm. I have visited the Family History Center at Bury Quay in Tullamore; Paddy Heaney in Cadamstown; and the Cobh Heritage Center, where I met with a professional genealogist. I have queried the on line records from the immigration centers at Castle Garden and Ellis Island, New York (as Sarah and her descendants lived and continue to live in New York City, New York State, and elsewhere in the US), and Canadian immigration records. I can find to record of her Irish deparrture or American arrival. US Census records and her death certificate give conflicting dates for her US arrival, suggesting either that she came her as early as age 3 years, or as late as age 27.
Any help and hints would be appreciated, even if they turn out to be dead ends...anything to keep connected with my Irish homeland!
Michael Hofmann