Sylvester KENNEDY
Am trying to locate my GGG Grandfather, Sylvester KENNEDY born circa 1770. I have failed to find a birth, marriage or death for him in County Tipperary. He and his wife had at least 5 children, Mary, Patrick (my GG Grandfather), Hugh, John and Michael, and because the name Sylvester runs throughout the family descendency I would assume that there was a Sylvester too. Birth dates are not certain, but would date roughly from 1809 to 1830 or so. Naming patterns are true to the Irish format. My GG Grandfather married Margaret HOGAN in Terryglass in 1839. Their children were Sylvester 1841, John 1843, Mary 1844, Hugh (a predominant name through these Kennedy families), Hugh 1846, Michael 1848. There may have been an Ellen 1844 too. GG Grandfather also had a son to Nancy LARKIN, Patrick b 1836, but they never married. In 1853 Patrick & Margaret came to England, settling in Rotherham, Yorkshire where they had another daughter Annie. I have been searching for Sylvester senior for the past 10 years and he still eludes me. In desperation I tried a blanket search on rootsireland which threw up a Sylvester of roughly the right age and with a son called Sylvester,baptised in 1795 but in Dundalk parish, County Louth. This seems too far away to me for a migration, but any thoughts are very, very welcome. My research has left me to understand that my GG Grandfather Patrick was a bog farmer, but Co Galway has given me no leads so far to Sylvester. Sorry for the long post