Michael ROONEY, 1783–1857 (age 74 years)
- Name
- Michael ROONEY
| Birth | 1783 |
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| Marriage | Catherine CAULFIELD — View this family |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | Bridget ROONEY about 1806 (Age 23 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Patrick ROONEY February 2, 1808 (Age 25 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | Michael ROONEY 1809 (Age 26 years) |
| Birth of a son #4 | Thomas ROONEY March 17, 1817 (Age 34 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #5 | Ann ROONEY 1818 (Age 35 years) |
| Birth of a son #6 | John ROONEY June 24, 1820 (Age 37 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #7 | Mary ROONEY about 1823 (Age 40 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #8 | Catherine E ROONEY 1826 (Age 43 years) |
| Birth of a son #9 | Hugh ROONEY about 1828 (Age 45 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Patrick ROONEY — Elenor TRACY — View this family about 1837 (Age 54 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Michael ROONEY — Maria TRACY — View this family July 9, 1838 (Age 55 years) |
| Marriage of a child | John ROONEY — Mary MCCOOL — View this family October 16, 1844 (Age 61 years) Shared note: St. Paul's Catholic Church
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| Emigration | 1845 (Age 62 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Patrick Bunam KILLEEN — Catherine E ROONEY — View this family February 17, 1851 (Age 68 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Hugh ROONEY — Ann MORRIS — View this family February 4, 1856 (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Thomas ROONEY — Bridget BROWN — View this family October 11, 1856 (Age 73 years) Shared note: St. Camillus Church
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| Death | January 12, 1857 (Age 74 years) |
| Burial | January 1857 (Age 74 years) |
| himself |
1783–1857
Birth: 1783 — Ireland Death: January 12, 1857 — Wakefield Twsp, Quebec, Canada |
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| wife |
1784–1875
Birth: 1784 — Ireland Death: February 17, 1875 — Padua, Stearns Co, MN |
| Marriage |
Marriage: — |
| daughter | |
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2 years
son |
1808–1889
Birth: February 2, 1808
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24 — Ireland Death: April 9, 1889 — Bangor, Pope, Minnesota, USA |
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23 months
son |
1809–1878
Birth: 1809
26
25 — Galway, Ireland Death: May 6, 1878 — Wakefield Twsp, Quebec, Canada |
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8 years
son |
1817–1897
Birth: March 17, 1817
34
33 — Athlone, Roscommon Co, Ireland Death: April 23, 1897 — Bangor, Pope, Minnesota, USA |
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22 months
daughter |
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3 years
son |
1820–1880
Birth: June 24, 1820
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36 — Galway, Ireland Death: May 19, 1880 — Padua, Stearns Co, MN |
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4 years
daughter |
1823–1875
Birth: about 1823
40
39 — Ireland Death: after 1875 — United States |
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4 years
daughter |
1826–1901
Birth: 1826
43
42 — Clare, Ireland Death: January 31, 1901 — Fort Steele, British Columbia, Canada |
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3 years
son |
1828–1880
Birth: about 1828
45
44 — Ireland Death: 1880 — Miles City, Custer, Montana |
| Note | Michael Rooney and Catherine Caulfield emigrated to Canada around 1845 (although there are land records showing Rooney's in the Canada farm census of 1841). In their 60's, they followed several of their grown children, the earliest who was in Canada by 1829. They settled in the Gatineau River region of Quebec, north of Ottawa, near the town of Farrelton (present day La Pêche). The two oldest boys - Patrick (b. 1808) and Michael (b. 1809) - had their own farms in Canada. They also probably did some contract lumbering as this region was rich in lumber and this was the heyday of lumber being shipped by boat to Great Britain. Michael and Catherine's grandson Thomas T. Rooney, son of John R. Rooney (1854-1925), was possibly a second cousin to his wife Ellen E Rooney (1872-1902). Her grandfather, John Rooney, would have been born at an age to be a brother to Daddy Mick. John's descendants coincidentally fit into the Michael and Catherine Rooney line when a granddaughter married married a Daddy Mick Rooney grandson. As of 2017, it has been proven by finding DNA matches on Ancestry between the Padua Rooney branch and descendants of the Avon Rooney branch. However, the exact connection is still to be determined. The Egan's and Rooney's intermarried eight times (all of the couples dying in Pope or Stearns County): James Rooney (1848-1926) Ann Egan (1846-1914) Mary Ann Rooney (1865-1937) Dennis Egan (1849->1910) William Edward Rooney (1897-1980) Mary Emily Egan (1897-1990). Mary was an orphan train adoptee, so not genetically an Egan or a Rooney, even though her "grandfather" was John R. Rooney. Also, her husband William Edward Rooney was one of the "Avon Rooney's." Though not genetically an Egan or a Rooney, even though her "great grandfather" was Michael Rooney on the Padua side, she married William Edward Rooney whose great grandfather was John Rooney the Avon side. Thus by prior relationship they were 3rd cousins, but unrelated by consanguinity. Mary Rooney (1837-1905) James Egan (1826-1912) Eleanor Rooney (1842-1902) Patrick Egan (1833-1892) Elizabeth A Rooney (1866-1904) (first-cousin once-removed to her husband) Thomas Edward Egan (1862-1928) Martin Gannon (1848-1911) (son of Mary Egan and grandson of Thomas B Egan) Catherine Kilroe (1859->1940) (granddaughter of Bridget Rooney and great granddaughter of Daddy Mick/Mammy Kitty Rooney) Daniel Michael Rooney (1955-2014) was related to his wife, Karen Ann Majerus (1957-living): His great great grandparents were Michael and Catherine Rooney, while Karen's 4x great grandparents were Michael and Catherine. Thus, they were third cousins twice-removed. Also, Karen is an Egan descendent as well. Including the three cousin marriages listed just above, there are these additional three: In 1877, Sarah Margaret Tracy, daughter of Ann Rooney, married her first cousin, John J. Rooney, son of Patrick Rooney. In 1888, Hugh M. Rooney married his first cousin, Winifred Sophia Rooney. In about 1889, Thomas T. Rooney of the Padua Rooney branch married his second cousin, Ellen E. Rooney, of the Avon Rooney branch. Randy Rooney says (May 2016): "I have been in contact with my closest Y-DNA result match who has a genetic distance of 1 out of the 37 markers I had tested. His great grandfather, Patrick [Rooney] b. ~1845, was from Dundalk, County Louth , just south of County Down. Is it possible that we aren't finding Rooney's in the area of Parish Moore since Michael wasn't from that part of Ireland, but just started his family there because Catherine was from there? And if Michael didn't have strong family ties to the area, did that prompt their emigration from Ireland. It seems reasonable they lived near Parish Moore at one time if Thomas married Ellen Ward there, and Michael/Catherine are listed as being from Co. Galway on the Canadian marriage record of John Rooney/Mary McCool. However, what else is known about where they had lived prior to Canada? The more we learn, the more questions there seem to be…" Earlier in his email Randy said: "Clonburren and Moore South graveyards, [the two others besides the Kilbegley Cemetery associated with the Parish of Moore in Roscommon], have been completed already [cleaning, reading and photographing old monuments], so you can see what Kilbegley eventually will include. I found the Moore South graveyard interesting since there were many Caulfield's, but no Rooney's." Ten Caulfield's, to be exact. July, 2017: Looking at Geraldine Felling Walsh's Ancestry DNA pages. She and her siblings and several of her living first cousins are closer to the Rooney ancestors genetically than are any of the rest of us. There are a number of people related to her that have a Rooney in their family tree, but those Rooney's have no known connection to us. The furtherest ancestor any of them listed could be as close as a first cousin or a nephew or niece to "Daddy Mick." They appear so far to come from either Leitrim or Mayo in Ireland. Maybe they are from a "Leitrim" branch? |
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