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Author: Cheysouix
Surnames: O'Neal, O'Neil, Kelly, Kellette,
Classification: queries
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I am continuing this search on behalf of my father and the promise I made to him before he
passed away on Feb 10, 2010. We were trying to find the paternal side of his family
beyond himself. There is some confusion as to his mother's name on his birth
certificate as it is listed as Mary Theresa O'Neil and his father as John O'Neil
both from Detroit, Michigan. In actuality his mother's maiden name was Constance
Evangeline Kelly but his grandmother, who wrote out the birth certificate, changed both
the spelling of Dad's last name from O'Neil to O'Neal and totally rewrote the
name of his mother, we think, because she gave birth in a convent. Grandmother used her
Christian name instead. But the family name "John Kenton O'Neal" was
retained by Dad's mother throughout his life even though she (re)married early in her
life to L. Claude Kellette. Dad's father supposedly died in the flu epidemic of 1918
but the exact year is not certain nor is any information concerning him at this!
point.
Please email if you have any insight into this dilemma at all. Anyone in the family who
might have had any information is now gone so I must ask those of you for your kind
assistance with matter. Thank you in advance.
The Minister's daughter, Kathi
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