Using documents from the Registry of Deeds, Eneclann’s researchers identified three distinct but interconnected clusters of Benn/ Behn families between 1719 and the early 1800s in Limerick, Galway and Tipperary. The earliest records we have for the Benn family show them in 1719 in Limerick city. The information found in...
On 20th September 1858 in the RC Cathedral in Detroit, Mary Pauline, youngest daughter of the late Patrick Russell Cruise, married Dillon Henry Mapother, of Louisville Kentucky. A notice of their marriage in the Freeman’s Journal stated that Dillon H. Mapother was the second son of the late Henry Mapother Esq. of Annadale...
The Mapother family’s deep roots were in Dorset in south-west England. The first reference to the family in Ireland, is in 1588 to Richard Mapother Sheriff of Roscommon.[1] By the early 1600s the Mapothers received a grant of lands in county Roscommon, and established their main residence in Kilteevan, where they...
The Russell family were Old English settlers, who claimed their origins in Ireland went back to the Anglo-Norman conquest. Although visible in the records from the 1200s, the Russells didn’t have a large landed base. Their main seat was Seatown, situated in present day Malahide, north county Dublin. Fragments of...
The Warren family were Old English settlers, who claimed descent from the Anglo-Norman conquerors. Their main estates were in Drumree, county Meath. Sir Peter Warren (1703-1752) was the son of Michael Warren of Warrenstown, and Lady Katherine Plunkett (nee Aylmer).[1] Left: Warrenstown House Peter Warren joined the navy at Dublin...
The documentary evidence shows that between 1169 and 1176 the de Cruis family were among the first wave of Anglo-Normans to invade Ireland. In the medieval records, the name appears as de Cruis, (also Cruce, Cruys, and Cruws). In 1176 Augustino de Cruce acted as a legal witness to a...
President Barack Obama’s Irish links to Moneygall, Co. Offaly came to light in 2007 following research conducted by Megan Smolenyak. In 2008, Eneclann researchers, Fiona Fitzsimons and Helen Moss, researched President Obama’s Irish ancestry back from Falmouth Kearney, Obama’s 2nd great-grandfather to Obama’s 7th great-grandfather, Joseph Kearney born ca. 1698. ...
President Barack Obama’s Kearney family history, as researched by Eneclann, is interesting because it illustrates over five generations a family history that was not untypical in Ireland, but which we don’t often consider as a typical emigrant story. The Kearney family, were probably Gaelic Irish in origin, based on the...
Barack Obama is directly descended from the Kearneys of Shinrone and Moneygall Co. Offaly. The height of this family’s prosperity was between the 1760s and 1780s, when the nephews from Offaly stepped into their Dublin uncle’s business of wig-making (also known as peruke- or periwig-making). People wore wigs because they...
Fulmoth Kearney was Barack Obama’s 3x grandfather. This pedigree chart shows Fulmoth’s parents, Joseph and Phoebe Kearney, and his siblings. Reviewing Griffith’s Valuation, Fiona Fitzsimons and Helen Moss found that in March 1851 Phoebe Kearney leased a house and outbuilding in Moneygall from the Rev. William Minchin. They then examined...
Joseph Kearney was Barack Obama’s 4x great-grandfather. This pedigree chart shows his parents, William and Margaret Kearney, and Joseph’s siblings. Information on individuals: Joseph Kearney Joseph was referred to in a lease dated 1 May 1800 (Minchin to Kearney) as the son of William Kearney. The lease was cited in...
William Kearney was Barack Obama’s 5 x great-grandfather. This pedigree chart shows his parents, John and Sarah Kearney (nee Healey), and William’s siblings. Joseph Kearney Joseph was probably born circa 1730. He is described as a ‘comber, of Shinrone’ in a lease dated 1759. He married Sarah Healey ‘of Moneygall’...