Mr. Sullivan,
Your message really awakened me this morning and I wonder if just maybe
there could be a connection with your Cavanaughs and mine. Is the
Lackawanna Cty that you mentioned by any chance in New York? The names
Philbin, Corbett, Lynch, Brennen and Grebs (Kreps/Krepley) also made me
droll.
Let me tell you my story to see if you see any familiarity. I too am
trying to sort many things. Shortly after the famine many Irish,
including my Cavanaughs and Kennys, went to Staffordshire England from
Galway. Some of their children then immigrated to the States and settled
around Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio. My great-grandmother, Mary
Kenny/Kenny was among them. She married John Chalk, also from
Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and they raised a large brood in Youngstown.
Our family always contributed money to Father Baker for his orphanage.
Our Lady of Victory Homes, in Lackawanna, New York. Family stories were
that Fr. Baker was a good friend of Mary Kenny Chalk, and that she
always tried to raise money in her parish for him. In those days the
distance between Lackawanna and Youngstown were too great for this to be
a mere coincidence. When she died in 1940, she left a sister, "Mrs.
William Krepley" in Pittsburgh. Previously she had a sister Annie and a
brother James living in Pittsburgh that did not survive her. I have
tried and tried to find the Krepley's with no avail. My Grandfather had
always referred to his cousins the Kreps in Pittsburgh but I don't know
if they were the same as Krepley or if the Krepley was just an error in
spelling in her obituary. No cemetery records can be found for them. Of
course I was trying to locate Kreps/Krepley never thinking of the
spelling Grebs. There was several generations of intermarrying between
the Kennys and Cavanaughs both in England and the States. Some of the
information has been documented and other I am still researching. I am
so close that it is just driving me crazy. The sponsors in baptism for
Mary and her siblings are as follows:
Peter Kilroy and Mary Rodgers
John Connor and Ann Conway
Antony Kilroy and Mary Filbin
John McDonnel and Maria Swanwick
James Walsh and Horra Brennan
? and Mary Connelly
Edward Fellaghan and Catherine sheridan
Martin Kenny and Catherine Cavanagh (The next generation Catherine's two
sons were godfathers to my grandfather and his brother in Youngstown, Ohio)
I have not been able to obtain baptismal certificates for later children
yet.
I am waiting anxiously to hear from you and hope that just something
will ring a bell with you.
Marie Scott
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I am trying to sort out the various CAVANAUGH families who first settled in Lackawanna Co
Old Forge, Minooka, Taylor, Scranton areas.
Please contact me at wsullivw(a)aol.com
Walton J. Sullivan at wsullivw(a)aol.com
Paternal - SULLIVAN, COLEMAN, CUMMINGS, O'BRIEN, BOLD, BLACK, BRENNAN, CAFFREY,
CAVENEY, CARROLL, CORBETT, CROWE, DISKIN, DONEGAN, FARRELL, FEE, GABRIEL, GIBLIN, GORMAN,
GERRITY, GREP, JENKINS, JENNINGS, LAW, LYNCH, MC GREEVEY, MC NALLY, O'CONNOR,
PHILBIN, REGAN, ROLAND, SHEA, SHIELDS, STAFFORD, STANTON, STEINHAUSER, WALTON, WEISS,
PA-Old Forge, Minooka, Taylor, Scranton, Hawley, Mt. Pleasant, Pittsburgh; NY-Kingston,
New Amsterdam; Wales-Rhymney, Tredegar
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