Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Kennedy was born on 17 June 1836, in Ireland, her father, William James Kennedy, was 37 and her mother, Matildia Brown, was 27. She married William Hendrix Clawson in 1853, in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Clarinda, Page, Iowa, United States in 1885 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. She died in 1905, at the age of 69.
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- Margaret Clawson in household of William H Clawson, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
- Margaret Kennedy, "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881"
- Margaret Kennedy, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’ (from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’); or from the Scottish Gaelic Mac Cinnèidigh, consisting of mac ‘son’ with an equivalent name. Compare Canaday , Cannady , Cannedy , Kannady , and Kenedy .
History: Kennedy ancestral lands are found both in Ireland and in Scotland, where the family's medieval ancestral seat is sited on the Ayrshire coast, facing the Irish Sea. — The great-grandparents of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) came to North America as immigrants from Ireland in the 1840s. His paternal great-grandparents were Patrick Kennedy (1823–58), born in Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland, and Bridget Murphy, who was born probably in Owenduff, County Wexford, Ireland c. 1827; they came to Boston, MA, in 1849. His maternal great-grandparents were Thomas Fitzgerald (1823–85), who was born in Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland, and Rose Anna Cox, who was born probably in Tomregan or Kinawley, County Cavan, Ireland, c. 1835; they came to Boston, MA, in 1857. — An early Scottish Kennedy forebear of a quite different family was British colonial official Archibald Kennedy (1685–1763), the son of Alexander Kennedy of Craigoch, who emigrated to NY c. 1710.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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