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Old Photos of Esmond Edward Hennesy at the Paper Mill, Exterior
Esmond Hennesy is 2nd from right Esmond Hennesy is on the far right Two more photos of Esmond Hennesy at the paper mill, other individuals unknown. I don’t know if this is in Arkansas but I’m thinking it may be as he appears to be older here.
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Photo of Esmond Edward Hennesy at the paper mill, 1927
Esmond Edward Hennesy at the paper mill. The back reads 23 January 1927, midnight. It must have been a special day. Most of the photos we have of Esmond are to do with paper mill activities but this is an exception for all the photos we have in that it is “industrial”. Prior to this…
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Photo of Esmond Edward Hennesy at a fair
Esmond Edward Hennesy, son of James Leon Hennesy and Lucy Myles 1 Jun 1903 – 24 Nov 1992 Circa early 1920s. This is really a pretty interesting photo in that it is a “staged” photo at a fair of some type, probably in Washington Parish, Louisiana where he lived. There is another photo of him…
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Photo of James and Nancy Caroline Welch Hennesy
James Hennesy (4 Jan 1839 – 2 Oct 1911) and Nancy Caroline Welch Hennesy (9 Feb 1848 – 6 Nov 1925) in later years. There was no indication on the photo of photographer or date, but it would have been early 1900’s. If one looks closely one will note that the photo was taken outdoors.…
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John Kearns and Catherine McNulty
John and Catherine KEARNS seem to have been Irish Potato Famine Immigrants who came to America around 1850, at the tail end of the famine which lasted from 1845 to 1850 or 1852. According to the 1860 census, John was born abt. 1820 in Ireland, and Catherine was born abt. 1822. John KEARNS married Catherine/Katherine…
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Last of a Coterie of Pioneer Settlers
Patrick McNulty (also given as born 1825, died 1911 at the age of 86) may have been a cousin of Catherine. A newspaper article, titled “Last of a Coterie of Pioneer Settlers”, read: With the burial of Mr. P. McNulty passed away the last one of a class of hardy Irishmen that settled beyond the…
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Peter Reynolds and Elizabeth “Eliza” Ann Kearns
Elizabeth (Eliza) Ann KEARNS, daughter of John KEARNS and Catherine MCNULTY , was born about 1852 according to the 1860 census. There are discrepancies as to these dates, just as her brother, Michael Tearance KEARNS, is given a number of different birth dates. Elizabeth died at 11:40 P.M., September 15, 1932. Her death certificate states…
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Timothy Kearns and Abbey Bernard
Timothy, son of John Kearns and Catherine McNulty, was given as 1 year of age in the 1860 census. Dying in Mobile on 1938 Feb 10, his death certificate gives his date of birth as March 01, 1878 and states he was 59 at the time of his death. This misinformation may have had to…
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Michael Tearance Kearns and Mary McAndrews
Michael “Buddy” Tearance KEARNS was born 19 Jan 1865 or 1856 or 1860, even as early as 1853 according to the 1900 census, though the 1870 census gives him as born 1855 and the 1860 census gives him as born about 1856. He was born at Toulminville, Mobile Co. AL to John KEARNS and Catherine…
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Thomas McAndrews (McAndrew) and Catherine
It is probable that Mary MCANDREWS, who married Michael Tearance KEARNS, was a daughter of Thomas MCANDREWS and Catherine. Thomas MCANDREWS appears in the 1870 Alabama Mobile census, given there as 46, born about 1824 in Ireland, and is married to a Catherine, born abt. 1840 in Ireland. Among their children is a Mary, who…