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Author: RMWIV
Surnames: Carney, Kearney, White, Mahoney, Goodale, Obmann, Haman, Bice
Classification: queries
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Seeking information on the family of Thomas and Margaret (nee White) Kearney (aka Carney),
an Irish Catholic family of Oswego, Kendall County, Illinois and later Chickasaw County,
Iowa.
I'd really like to identify from where in Ireland this family came.
Thomas and Margaret were both born circa 1810 in Ireland and is believed (not proven) to
have been married there before coming to America circa before 1833 or 1835 when their
oldest child was born in New York.
Though he most likely was in Illinois earlier, Thomas first appears in American records
when he obtained a grant of land from the Chicago Land Office in 1843 for 160 acres in
Oswego Township, Kendall County, Illinois. Thomas, with family, appears there in the 1850
census. Thomas died in Oswego Township in 1853.
Widow Margaret and most children migrated to Howard County, Iowa where they are found in
the 1856 State Census. They are still found there in the 1860 census. I cannot locate the
widow Margaret in the 1870 census, but in the 1880 census Margaret Kearney is found living
in the household of her son-in-law and daughter, James and Catherine Mahoney, in Deerfield
Township, Chickasaw County, Iowa. By the 1885 State census I find Catherine Mahoney in
Deerfield Township as a widow, but I cannot locate the elderly widow Margaret. I am
assuming that Margaret died between 1880 to 1885 in Deerfield Township.
The Children of Thomas and Margaret (nee White) Kearney (aka Carney) are as follows:
Patrick, b abt 1833/1835 New York, m Amanda Goodale 1863, d 1922 North Dakota
Michael [twin], b abt 1836 New York, Civil War veteran, m Celia Obmann 1870, d 1892/3
Oswego IL
John [twin], b abt 1836 New York, remained Oswego, no further record after 1860 census
Thomas, b abt 1839 Illinois, remained Oswego, no further record after 1860 census
Mary Ann, b abt 1844 Illinois, m George Goodale 1863, no further info
Margaret, b abt 1845 Illinois, m Mr Haman, living 1925 Floyd Co Iowa
Catherine, b abt 1847 Illinois, m James Mahoney, living 1906 6 mi SW Alta Vista, Chickasaw
Co Iowa
James, b abt 1849 Illinois, m Anna Rebecca Bice m 1872, d 1943 Iowa
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