book The Kerry Chain

The Kerry Chain
The Limerick Link
Carol McCuaig

 
from the back cover
Between the years 1823 and 1875 a large number of families from Ireland’s County Kerry
and County Limerick, many of them inter-related, arrived in Renfrew County, Ontario. Many of them had first lived in the counties of Lanark and Carleton to the south, before making the move to join compatriots and relatives in the newly opened townships.
 
These chain migrations involved both Catholics and Protestants. The Catholics took up land
in a wide radius of Mount St Patrick, encouraged to settle by the pioneer priest there. The Protestants, many of whom were Palatines, chose new locations in the eastern part of the county.
 
This book, which is the result of a giant jigsaw puzzle on the author’s part, involving many years of research, brings together material which will be invaluable to the family researcher. In the days before cars were available, people usually chose to marry people from within walking distance, a factor which came into play in both Ireland and Canada.
With so many families listed in one volume, it is hoped that readers will find a variety of clues to help them in their own research.
 
While the author appears to have been the first to uncover the Kerry chain, it has never been any secret that many of the people who settled in the Mount St Patrick area were from West Limerick. The author has found that many of the surnames are repeated in both the North Kerry and West Limerick groups, who lived within a short distance of each other in Ireland.
 
This book will be of interest to both the family historian and those engaged in Irish immigration studies.
 
Nominal Index

Allen
Anderson
Armitage
Armstrong
Baker
Barrett
Barry
Bassett
Baxter
Beareau
Beasley
Beatty
Bell
Bennett
Bickford
Bird
Blackburn
Blackwell
Blair
Boland
Bolton
Boudreault
Bourget
Bourke
Bowen
Bowes
Bradley
Brady
Bremner
Brennan
Brick
Bridgeman
Briggs
Broderick
Brogan
Brown
Bruce
Brushey
Buckley
Bulger
Burke
Burns
Burrows
Butler
Buttle
Byrne
Cahill
Callaghan
Cameron
Campbell
Cardiff
Carmody
Carney
Carr
Carroll
Carson
Carty
Casey
Caswell
Caven
Childerhose
Christie
Churchill
Clancy
Clark
Cole
Coleman
Collins
Colterman
Comba
Command
Cummane
Comerford
Connaughan
Condon
Conlon
Connell
Connelly
Conniff
Connor
Connors
Conroy
Constant
Conway
Cooney
Copps
Corbett
Corcoran
Cornell
Costello
Coughlin
Coughill
Coyne
Cronin
Culhane
Cull
Cunningham
Cuman
Curtin
Dack
Dahill
Danford
Davis
Davison
Dee
Delaine
Denihan
Derry
Devine
Dickson
Dillon
Dinsen
Docherty
Dobson
Dodge
Donaldson
Donnelly
Donegan
Donohue
Donovan
Dooley
Dooling
Dooner
Dorrnady
Dorway
Dougherty
Doupe
Dowling
Downey
Doyle
Draper
Driscoll
Drohan
Dubreuil
Duffy
Duggan
Duhamel
Dulmage
Dumas
Dundon
Dunfield
Dunn
Dwyer
Edwards
Egan
Enright
Evans
Faichney
Falvey
Farmer
Farrell
Faught
Fennell
Fergus
Fillator
Finucane
Fitzgerald
Fitzmaurice
Flahaven
Fluker
Fogarty
Foisey
Foley
Foran
Fossette
Foster
Foy
Frego
Frizelle
Fulford
Galeavan
Gallagher
Gagnon
Gannon
Gaudette
Gauthier
Gibbons
Glancy
Godfrey
Goodfellow
Godin
Gracey
Graham
Greer
Griffin
Griffith
Grimes
Grogan
Guerin
Guest
Guigues
Guinan
Guiney
Gypherd
Haddon
Hagarty
Halloran
Hally
Hands
Hanlon
Hannan
Hannon
Hanrahan
Harrington
Hartnett
Hartney
Harty
Harvey
Hastings
Hawkins
Hayes
Healey
Hedican
Heffeman
Helferty
Henderson
Hennessy
Heron
Hickey
Hill
Hoare
Hoffman
Hogan
Holley
Holmes
Holly
Hoover
Horton
Houlihan
Howard
Hoy
Huckabone
Hughes
Hunt
Hunter
Hutton
Hyland
Ingalls
Irving
Ives
James
Jessop
Jessup
Johnson
Johnston
Jolicoeur
Jourdan
Joyce
Kane
Keane
Kearney
Kelleher
Kelly
Kelley
Kennedy
Kennelly
Kenney
Kenny
Kerr
Kidd
Kiely
Kilby
Kilgour
Killoran
King
Kinsella
Kirwan
Kissane
Kitts
Kuntz
Labelle
Laderoute
Lamb
Lambert
Lane
Lartique
Latchford
Lavallee
Lavigne
Lavin
Laviolette
Lawlor
Leach
Ledgerwood
Legris
Lennon
Lett
LevairLibby
Lonergan
Long
Lorraine
Loughrin
Lowe
Lunn
Lynch
Lyons
Madigan
Mahoney
Malloy
Maloney
Mangan
Manion
Mansell
Marchand
Martin
Massey
McAuley
McAdam
McAuliffe
McCabe
McCann
McCarroll
McCoy
McCarthy
McConnell
McCormac
McCormack
McCormick
McCrea
McCreary
McDevitt
McDonald
McDonnell
McDougall
McEachen
McElligott
McEvoy
McEwan
McGarry
McGee
McGrath
McGuire
McHale
Mclnirey
McInerny
Mclntyre
McKay
McKiernan
McLaughlin
McLean
McMahon
McManus
McNamara
McNulty
McPeak
McPherson
McWilliams
Meagher
Mears
Meehan
Mick
Miller
Millotte
Mills
Moffat
Moore
Moran
Morgan
Moriarty
Morrison
Morrissey
Mowat
Mullane
Mullenly
Mulligan
Mulvenna
Mulvihill
Murphy
Murray
Naughton
Needham
Neill
Neville
Newell
Nicholson
Nolan
Obrey
O’Brien
O’Connor
O’Donnell
O’Donohue
O’Gorman
O‘Grady
O’Hare
O’Kane
O‘Keefe
O’Meara
O’Neill
O’Reilly
Orr
O’Shaughnessy
O’Shea
Owens
Patt
Patterson
Paul
Payne
Peelow
Peever
Pickering
Poff
Polk
Pope
Potvin
Power
Prentice
Prindle
Quilter
Quilty
Quinn
Radwell
Rahilly
Reeves
Relehan
Riordan
Robillard
Robinson
Rodwell
Rogers
Ross
Rowan
Ryan
Sammon
Scanlan
Scanlon
Scollard
Scully
Sellers
Shanahan
Shaughnessy
Sheahan
Sheedy
Sheehy
Sheppard
Shirley
Shoemaler
Shouldiss
Siletz
Slattery
Smith
Sparling
Stack
Stafford
Stratton
Stroud
Styles
Sullivan
Sunstrum
Sutherland
Sweeney
Switzer
Synan
Taylor
Teevans
Teskey
Thibodeau
Thomas
Thompson
Thomson
Tierney
Timmins
Toohey
Townsend
Twohey
Urness
Valliquette
Varrin
Vaughan
Veil
Villeneuve
Vokes
Wall
Walsh
Ward
Warren
Wayfield
Wellwood
West
Wharton
Whelan
White
Williams
Wilson
Windle/Wingle
Winters
Wren
Young