When William Perry Kearney was born in December 1835, in Lifford, County Donegal, Ireland, his father, John Kearney, was 28 and his mother, Mary Ann Perry, was 22. He married Jane Groves on 6 December 1860, in Luthersburg, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years and Jefferson, Jefferson Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died in August 1915, in Lanes Mills, Snyder Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Groves Cemetery, Beechwoods, Washington Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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.
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Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Seamus, Caitlin, Declan, Dermot, Donovan, Eamonn, Liam.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catharnaigh ‘descendant of Catharnach’, a personal name meaning ‘warlike’. Alternatively, it may be from Ó Cearnaigh or Mac Cearnaigh (from cearnach ‘victorious’) or from Ó Ceithearnaigh ‘descendant of Ceithearnach’, a personal name meaning ‘foot soldier’.
History: Most present-day bearers of this name are descended from Tadhg Ó Catharnaigh, killed in battle in 1084. He was nicknamed An Sionnach ‘the Fox’, and for this reason the Irish surname was sometimes Anglicized as Fox . Denis Kearney, born in Oakmont, Ireland, in 1847, was a US labor movement leader.
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