Thursday, August 27, 2009

McEnerys of Newcastle West, Co. Limerick

I've been trying to straighten out the McEnerys of Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. (1) There were three McEnery brothers, Fr. Joseph E., a diocesan priest in England; James, a Dominican priest known in religion as Fr. Bede; and Jack, a teacher who was living in a nursing home in Wales in 1975. They grew up in Co. Kilkenny, where their father was a teacher. Their grandfather was Owen McEnery, but I do not know the names of their parents. (2) Eugene McEnery married Mary Collins, and had a son Thomas, b. 1867 in Newcastle West. This Thomas married Catherine Moore, and they had a daughter Margaret (b. 1903, d. 1982) who married William Joseph O'Driscoll (1905-1987). (3) Are they related to the three Irish priests, Thomas, Patrick, and Dennis McEnery who served in the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, and are all buried in the cemetery at Abbeyfeale? (4) What about Eugene McEnery who had two daughters in New York, Bridget McEnery Clifford and Mary McEnery Shanahan? He came to NY in 1899, but probably went back to Ireland in 1901. Most, if not all, of these people are related to, and probably descended from, my McEnerys, Patrick and Catherine (Riordan) McEnery of Monagea, Co. Limerick, but it is not entirely clear how.

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