KEARNEY, CARNEY, surnames of Ireland, (O) Kearney, Ó Catharaigh - warlike, or Ó Cearnaigh, Ir. cearnach - victorious. (MacLysaght). Traced by MacLysaght in Co. Meath where it is now often changed to FOX, in Cos. Mayo and Tipperary, and as Carney in Connacht.
| At Caplin Bay | Ferryland Parish RC Marriages: July 16 1887 - Pierce Carney m. Mary Gatherall. Witnesses: Michael Costello and Eliza Gatherall. Priest:L.K. Vereker. |
| Newfoundland 1921 Census: - household of John Gatherall - KEARNEY; Catherine, niece, single b. Oct 1892 - age 29 - b. Caplin Bay. | |
| At Witless Bay: | McAlpines 1894-97 Directory: Pierce Carney, fisherman. |
| McAlpine's 1898 Directory: Pierce Carney, fisherman. | |
| Family History: | The Carney (sometimes spelled Kearney) family may have lived briefly at Caplin Bay in the late 1880s. It appears that Pierce Carney was from the Witless Bay area and moved back there in the early 1890s. There is no record of Catherine Carney's baptism in the Ferryland RC Baptisms, however in the Newfoundland 1921 Census, she indicated that she was born at Caplin Bay in 1892. She was living with her two uncles, John and Joseph Gatherall, at Caplin Bay when the census was taken. No death record could be found for Pierce Carney but it appears that Mary (Gatherall) Carney married Michael Costello at Cape Broyle in 1904. Catherine Carney married John Thomas Boland of Calvert and had two daughters. Although the Carney surname is long gone from Calvert, there are several families that are descendants of Pierce and Mary Carney at Calvert and Ferryland. |
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