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1. MICHAEL1 HENNESSEY was born 1789 in Ireland, and died January 21, 1874 in Prince Edward Island. He married MARY TOBIN.
I have 1789 as birth - will have to check where that came from?
Died at his residence, South Shore, Lot 65, on Wednesday 21st Ult.
Mr. Michael Hennessey in 85 year of his age.
" Margaret F 37 "
" Francis M 15 "
" Lizzie F 12 "
" James M 9 "
" Martha F 7 "
" Joseph M 5 "
" Anastasia F 2 "
" Andrew A M 1 "
2. i. JAMES MICHAEL2 HENNESSEY, b. Prince Edward Island; d. Prince Edward Island.
3. ii. ANN HENNESSEY, b. October 02, 1832, Prince Edward Island; d. September 12, 1923, Prince Edward Island.
iii. ELIZABETH HENNESSEY, b. March 07, 1834, Prince Edward Island; d. March 03, 1883, Prince Edward Island; m. PETER O'GORMAN, January 18, 1863; d. March 24, 1883.
Died: "At Boston Highlands, on 24th March, Mr. Peter Gorman, a native of County Galway, Ireland aged 50 years, also at the same place, on the 3rd inst., Elizabeth, his wife, age 46 years, the latter was a sister to Mr. Michael Hennessey of this city."
4. iv. MICHAEL HENNESSEY, b. April 08, 1839, South Shore, (Cumberland)Prince Edward Island; d. November 10, 1916, Prince Edward Island.
5. v. MARY HENNESSEY, b. 1845, Prince Edward Island; d. October 04, 1916, Prince Edward Island.
vi. JOHN HENNESSEY, b. 1847.
2. JAMES MICHAEL2 HENNESSEY (MICHAEL1) was born in Prince Edward Island, and died in Prince Edward Island. He married MARY POWER April 04, 1864.
6. i. MICHAEL JAMES3 HENNESSEY, b. October 1870, Prince Edward Island; d. September 26, 1938, Prince Edward Island.
ii. MARGARET HENNESSEY, b. April 24, 1873.
iii. LAWRENCE (LAR) HENNESSEY, b. March 10, 1879; d. 1954.
iv. FREDERICK HENNESSEY, b. August 20, 1881.
7. v. EDWARD HENNESSEY, b. July 02, 1882; d. July 30, 1946.
vi. FANNY HENNESSEY, b. April 06, 1885, Prince Edward Island.
3. ANN2 HENNESSEY (MICHAEL1) was born October 02, 1832 in Prince Edward Island, and died September 12, 1923 in Prince Edward Island. She married JOHN MCMAHON.
4. MICHAEL2 HENNESSEY (MICHAEL1) was born April 08, 1839 in South Shore, (Cumberland)Prince Edward Island, and died November 10, 1916 in Prince Edward Island. He married MARGARET MURPHY February 20, 1865, daughter of ANDREW MURPHY and JANE GODKIN. She was born February 05, 1844 in South Shore, (Cumberland) Prince Edward Island, and died September 03, 1934 in Prince Edward Island.
i. FRANCIS3 HENNESSEY, b. December 01, 1865, Prince Edward Island; d. February 17, 1886, Prince Edward Island.
Died at his father's residence, Great George Street, on the 17th inst, Francis, son of Michael Hennessey, age 20 years and 2 months. Funeral from his late residence for St. Dunstan's Cathedral.
9. ii. ELIZABETH HENNESSEY, b. July 12, 1867, Prince Edward Island.
iii. JAMES HENNESSEY, b. December 07, 1869, Prince Edward Island; d. 1964, Prince Edward Island; m. MARGARET KELLY, September 29, 1902, St. Dunstan's Cathedral, Charlottetown, PEI.
10. iv. MARTHA HENNESSEY, b. January 30, 1872, Prince Edward Island; d. December 27, 1949, Prince Edward Island.
v. M. JOSEPH HENNESSEY, b. December 05, 1873, Prince Edward Island; d. April 23, 1925, Prince Edward Island.
vi. ANASTASIA HENNESSEY, b. October 23, 1875.
vii. GEORGE C. G. HENNESSEY (SIR), b. December 15, 1877, Prince Edward Island; d. February 23, 1933, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Subject: A little more Hennessey history!
I was reading the Hennessey Funeral Home history you have on your website and thought it was great. By the way did you know another Hennessey has his own funeral home too?
Sir George Hennessey was knighted by the Pope as a Knight Commander of the Holy Sepulcher for his work for Bishop Francis Kelley (another Islander) and the "Chapel Cars." Bishop Kelley was in charge of the Catholic Church Extension Society.
Many of the places that the Catholic Church Extension Society visited were too small or too poor to provide adequate religious service to its people. The CCES provided several means of spreading Catholicism to poor and desolate parts of the United States. The most popular way was through the use of Chapel Cars: St. Anthony, St. Peter, and St. Paul. These cars operated from 1907 until into the 1930's.
The itineraries of these chapel cars took them mainly to the South, West, and Northwest of the United States. Chapel cars would stop in various towns and hamlets for days at a time. Novelty drew many people to these chapel cars, but the Catholic population sought to receive proper spiritual guidance. Visitations by the cars often helped spur the construction of chapels to continue servicing the community. The collection about the CCES Chapel Cars includes extensive correspondence from George Hennessey, who ran the chapel cars.
After he finished this "missionary" work for the church, he settled in Portland and opened a funeral home in partnership. Sir George is buried in our local Peoples Cemetery with his parents and a number of brothers and sisters.
My understanding is that Sir George Hennessey travelled west across the US to various places and organized the people in the communities to prepare for a visit by The Bishop -- Bishop Kelly. Sir George was related to him.
Sir George would arrive before hand and organize a choir to sing and arrange for a place to have the Mass said, etc. Upon the arrival of the bishop all would be ready. I'm not sure, but I think the Bishop would arrive by train - in the "chapel car". I found the words used in Sir George's obituary.
He would be my granduncle. Sir George was born in Dec. of 1877 and I would think he would be doing this work about the turn of the century. He died in Portland, Oregon, in Feb. of 1933 and was an undertaker (as was his father and brothers here in PEI) in a partnership in Portland at the time of his death. His remains were shipped home and he is buried here in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, with his parents.
This is about all I know of the story and I have not found a story in the local newspapers around 1925 about his being knighting by the Pope.
Loyola University Archives has in its collection the Catholic Church Extension Society (CCES) files from its inception up to 1962. These files include correspondence between CCES and home mission bishops. The Loyola University Archives maintains an extensive collection of CCES photographs dated from 1908 to 1980. The collection also includes newspaper clippings, an almost complete set of back issues of Extension Magazine, and more.
The Catholic Church Extension Society (CCES) was established on 18 October 1905 by Father Frances C. Kelley (who would later become Bishop of Oklahoma City) in order to serve the needs of the United States home missions. These were areas in the United States that lacked the necessary resources for the operations of the church. The CCES helps to build and furnish churches, assists in funding the education of seminarians, and subsidizes the income of missionary priests. The CCES assists dioceses in the United States (especially the Southern and Western states) including Alaska and Hawaii as well as Puerto Rico and the Philippines until it achieved independence.
Archbishop William D. O'Brien, auxiliary bishop of Chicago, was president of CCES for nearly forty years, the majority of the period covered in these files. O'Brien personally conducted nearly all of the correspondence between the CCES and the missionary bishops. Since O'Brien was a close friend with many (if not most) of these bishops, the correspondence contains a lot of personal chit-chat, gossip, joking, as well as CCES business.
The correspondence files of the CCES contains appeals for funding, records of financial transactions, arranging of meetings, newspaper clippings and many other miscellaneous items. Newspaper articles and letters appealing for funding often contain detailed description of the relevant mission area, its people and their living conditions, etc. There are also several newspaper articles with biographical sketches of the home mission bishops-- especially articles on newly appointed bishops, deceased bishops, and bishops celebrating their jubilee (50th year in the priesthood or 25th year as a bishop).
Many of the places that the Catholic Church Extension Society visited were too small or too poor to provide adequate religious service to its people. The CCES provided several means of spreading Catholicism to poor and desolate parts of the United States. The most popular way was through the use of Chapel Cars St. Anthony, St. Peter, and St. Paul. These cars operated from 1907 until into the 1930's.
The itineraries of these chapel cars took them mainly to the South, West, and Northwest. Chapel cars would stop in various towns and hamlets for days at a time. Novelty drew many people to these chapel cars, but the Catholic population sought to receive proper spiritual guidance. Visitations by the cars often helped spur the construction of chapels to continue servicing the community.
The collection for the CCES Chapel Cars includes extensive correspondence from George Hennessey, who ran the chapel cars. There are also many chaplain reports that describe the different towns that the chapel cars visited. The photograph collection has over one hundred pictures showing the three chapel cars in service throughout the United States. The chapel car photographs are part of a sub-section of the CCES Photographic Collection entitled "Transportation." This sub-section also has photographs of chapel boats, a mission yacht, motor chapels (chapel automobiles), and a chapel wagon.
Along with mission work on the home front, the Catholic Church Extension Society also provided funding and services abroad. The correspondence, like the home front correspondence, deals mainly with appeals for support. The photo section has over 1200 photographs of the Philippines prior to it's independence. Most of these photos are of newly created churches or of school children receiving instruction from priests and nuns. They could be found in the pages of Extension Magazine and used with pleas for funding.
But the Philippines was not the only overseas mission to receive support from CCES. Other locales include Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, Mariana Islands, Canal Zone (Panama), Okinawa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The work done in Alaska and Hawaii before statehood has been incorporated into the home mission work.
11. viii. ANDREW AUSTIN HENNESSEY, b. January 04, 1880, Prince Edward Island; d. February 14, 1940, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
ix. GERTRUDE HENNESSEY, b. January 18, 1882, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; d. 1965, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; m. PETER DOYLE.
12. x. FRANK HENNESSEY, b. January 07, 1892, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; d. February 01, 1946, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
5. MARY2 HENNESSEY (MICHAEL1) was born 1845 in Prince Edward Island, and died October 04, 1916 in Prince Edward Island. She married JOHN ALEXANDER MURPHY, son of ANDREW MURPHY and JANE GODKIN. He was born 1842, and died October 07, 1916 in Prince Edward Island.
i. ELIZABETH3 MURPHY, b. 1874; d. 1896.
ii. MARY ANN MURPHY, b. 1875, Prince Edward Island; d. 1875, Prince Edward Island.
13. iii. JAMES V. MURPHY, b. 1877, Prince Edward Island; d. 1942, Prince Edward Island.
iv. ANDREW MURPHY, b. 1878; d. 1966; m. MARY ANNE CONNOLLY; b. 1881; d. 1959.
14. v. DANIEL ALEXANDER MURPHY, b. September 28, 1880; d. 1956.
15. vi. JOSEPH S. MURPHY, b. 1882; d. 1957.
6. MICHAEL JAMES3 HENNESSEY (JAMES MICHAEL2, MICHAEL1) was born October 1870 in Prince Edward Island, and died September 26, 1938 in Prince Edward Island. He married HANNAH MURPHY April 14, 1890. She died July 16, 1943 in Prince Edward Island.
i. WILLIAM4 HENNESSEY, b. October 24, 1891; d. July 05, 1947; m. CHRISTINA CHEVERIE, August 27, 1912; b. June 07, 1891; d. January 15, 1961.
ii. WALTER (WAL) JAMES HENNESSEY, b. April 28, 1894; d. 1956; m. FRANCES SMITH, April 10, 1915.
iii. LAWRENCE (LAL) HENNESSEY, b. December 16, 1895; d. December 01, 1946; m. CATHERINE COSTELLO; b. March 28, 1894.
iv. ELIZABETH MAY HENNESSEY, b. July 12, 1902.
v. ERNEST HENNESSEY, b. November 12, 1903; d. April 15, 1957; m. (1) FLORENCE DUNN; b. 1906; d. November 1935; m. (2) VERA SWALLOW.
vi. EDWARD HENNESSEY, b. August 29, 1905.
vii. MARY E. HENNESSEY, b. March 22, 1907.
viii. RICHARD J. HENNESSEY, b. April 30, 1909.
ix. JOSEPH GORDON HENNESSEY, b. May 10, 1910.
7. EDWARD3 HENNESSEY (JAMES MICHAEL2, MICHAEL1) was born July 02, 1882, and died July 30, 1946. He married CHARLOTTE PETERS November 06, 1906. She died April 25, 1950.
i. MARY E.4 HENNESSEY, b. January 11, 1907.
8. MARION3 MCMAHON (ANN2 HENNESSEY, MICHAEL1) She married JAMES BRADLEY. He was born May 20, 1877 in South Melville, PEI, and died 1938 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
James E. Bradley, born May 20, 1877 in South Melville, PEI; died 1938 in Charlottetown, PEI. He married (1) Jennie "Jane" Elizabeth Creamer May 13, 1902 in Kelly's Cross, PEI; born August 1868 in South Melville, PEI; died 1923 in Charlottetown, PEI. He married (2) Marion McMahon Aft. 1923.
9. ELIZABETH3 HENNESSEY (MICHAEL2, MICHAEL1) was born July 12, 1867 in Prince Edward Island. She married J. T. COLLINS.
ii. HELEN COLLINS, m. A. R. MACINNIS.
iv. FRANK COLLINS, m. MAY WILLIAMS.
v. MARY COLLINS, b. 1892; d. September 15, 1983.
10. MARTHA3 HENNESSEY (MICHAEL2, MICHAEL1) was born January 30, 1872 in Prince Edward Island, and died December 27, 1949 in Prince Edward Island. She married JOHN B. CONNOLLY. He was born December 16, 1860, and died October 22, 1938 in Prince Edward Island.
i. GLADYS4 CONNOLLY, m. PATRICK A. MURNAGHAN.
ii. WILLIAM R. CONNOLLY, m. MARY HELENA MARTIN, October 05, 1939; b. January 13, 1918, Boston, Mass.; d. April 18, 2007, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Bill was manager of Irving Oil, Charlottetown plant for many years until he retired.
Mary and Bill lived at 60 North River Rd. Charlottetown for many years. In 2004 (?) Mary moved to Geneva Villa, a seniors residence on Walthen Drive in Charlottetown. After a fall, she was in hospital and was eventually moved in 2007 to the Garden Home where she passed away on April 18, 2007.
iii. JOHN J. CONNOLLY, b. May 24, 1901; m. JACQULINE ARSENAULT.
iv. BERNADETTE CONNOLLY, b. September 19, 1902; d. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
v. GEORGE F. CONNOLLY, b. January 08, 1905; d. January 23, 1938.
vi. LEONARD M. CONNOLLY, b. November 03, 1906; d. March 03, 1980; m. EMMA CAMPBELL.
vii. CHARLES R. CONNOLLY, b. July 08, 1908; d. May 06, 1977; m. MURIEL MOORE.
viii. AUSTIN B. (DING) CONNOLLY, b. October 30, 1911; m. TERESA CASS.
11. ANDREW AUSTIN3 HENNESSEY (MICHAEL2, MICHAEL1) was born January 04, 1880 in Prince Edward Island, and died February 14, 1940 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He married ELIZABETH (ELIZA) BRIDGET MCQUAID, daughter of JOHN MCQUAID and CATHERINE FITZPATRICK. She was born August 11, 1882 in Pisquid, Prince Edward Island, and died March 24, 1951 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Aunt Dot tells me that a black couple lived up the lane between the A. A. Hennessey Funeral Home (78 Kent St.) and Scantlbury's home. They were Harry (Pomp) & Susie Bailey. They lived in a little shack behind what use to be the Owen's property (Islander Motor Lodge stands there now). Pomp's job was to care for the horses that pulled the funeral hearse which were housed in a barn on Pownal Street beside the Kirk of St. James. Pomp had to care for the horses as well as polish the harness and all its silver hardware.
Aunt Dot mentioned a Dr. Seaman but I'm not sure of the relation to the above story unless he owed the property where Pomp & Susie lived.
From Island Register = "Burial Sites of Interesting Islanders"
"Andy" was initiated into the Benevolent Irish Society in 1902 and held the offices of President, Vice President, and Chief Marshal -- the latter office he held for nine years.
i. MARY DOROTHY4 HENNESSEY, b. July 26, 1913, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; d. March 20, 2010, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; m. J. ERNEST CORRIGAN, June 21, 1944, Montreal, Quebec.
Dorothy Corrigan was nominate and ran in the Charlottetown civic election in 1958. She was defeated at that time, but was elected in 1960 as a city councillor. In 1968 she ran for the position of mayor of the city and was elected and served as mayor until 1971. She was the first female mayor of a capital city of a province in Canada.
ii. GEORGE HAROLD HENNESSEY, b. May 30, 1916, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; d. June 16, 1958, Montreal, Quebec; m. ENID JOSEPHINE CANTWELL, May 16, 1940, Montreal, PQ; b. March 07, 1915, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; d. February 15, 1988, Pickering, Ontario.
iii. FRANCES ELEANOR HENNESSEY, b. July 05, 1918, Charlottetown, PEI; d. December 04, 1981, Charlottetown, PEI; m. BERT HORACE STRANG; d. 1974.
Sorry to trouble you; but I wonder if you could help us out?
We have (for some years!) been trying to confirm whether or not a lady name Mildred M STRANG (nee BARKER) left surviving issue. This is in connection with an estate administration.
Mildred died in 1971 in the USA; but we know that she had been married to one Bert(ie) Horace STRANG, who himself died in PEI Canada, in 1974. We also know that Bert left his estate to one F Eleanor HENNESSEY - who appears on your own family listing, at http://www.islandregister.com/hennessey1.html.
I therefore wonder if you are able to advise whether you were involved with the research regarding this part of the family; and if so, whether you have any knowledge of Bert Strang's initial marriage to Mildred, and whether there were any issue of same. I do of course appreciate that you are probably more interested in the HENNESSEY line than the STRANG family - but you never know!
Any information at all would be very helpful; and would hopefully allow us to close this file, that we have had open since 1997!!
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I was coming back from Fredricton yesterday and watched to see if there were any Strangs along that road to the bridge. There is a farm, Robert Strang and Son's near Melrose. I'm sure they are related to Birt but probably are nephews. I keep on thinking that he was married and his wife had some type of breakdown and was in a home of some sort or another.
iv. RITA THELMA HENNESSEY, b. October 22, 1923; m. MAXWELL CAMERON.
Thelma joined the an Order of nuns in Minniapolis and was a missionary nun in Peru for 17 years before leaving the order and returning to P. E. I. and a few years later met widower, Max Cameron, and were married. After returning to PEI Thelma worked as a nurse with the PEI Hospital Services Commission.
v. JOHN ANDREW BRENDON HENNESSEY, b. May 15, 1927; m. KATHLEEN REID.
12. FRANK3 HENNESSEY (MICHAEL2, MICHAEL1) was born January 07, 1892 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and died February 01, 1946 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He married CATHERINE MCGUIGAN. She was born March 01, 1894, and died December 22, 1983 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
i. MARY4 HENNESSEY, b. September 02, 1924, Charlottetown, PEI; m. RONAN G. MACDONALD, August 10, 1944.
ii. MICHAEL F. HENNESSEY, b. May 23, 1926, Charlottetown, PEI; m. ALETHA DOYLE, October 30, 1950.
iii. FRANCES MARGARET HENNESSEY, b. December 02, 1928; m. HAROLD BOWLAN, August 28, 1950.
iv. GEORGE HENNESSEY, b. September 21, 1931, Charlottetown, PEI; m. THERESA MCINTYRE.
13. JAMES V.3 MURPHY (MARY2 HENNESSEY, MICHAEL1) was born 1877 in Prince Edward Island, and died 1942 in Prince Edward Island. He married MINNIE WALSH. She was born 1878, and died 1966.
ii. THERESA MURPHY, m. JULIEN ROONEY.
iii. MARY MURPHY, b. 1910; d. 1995; m. ARTHUR WRIGHT.
iv. ELIZABETH MURPHY, b. 1911; d. 1991.
v. LAURA MURPHY, b. 1912; m. EUGENE SINNOTT.
vi. GEORGIE MURPHY, b. 1913; m. ALFRED PHELAN.
vii. IDA MURPHY, b. 1914.
14. DANIEL ALEXANDER3 MURPHY (MARY2 HENNESSEY, MICHAEL1) was born September 28, 1880, and died 1956. He married MARY B. KELLY, daughter of GREGORY KELLEY and CATHERINE O'HOLLORAN. She was born July 28, 1883 in Greenfield, Lot 66, Kings County, PEI, and died March 20, 1946.
i. FRANK G.4 MURPHY, b. 1913; d. 1954; m. BEATRICE SULLIVAN.
ii. JOSEPH A. MURPHY, b. 1914; d. 1997; m. ROBINA S. REILLY; b. 1923.
iii. CATHERINE E. MURPHY, b. January 17, 1916; d. September 12, 1993; m. WESTON (BUCKO) TRAINOR; b. 1921; d. 1991.
iv. STEVEN D. MURPHY, b. 1918; d. 1956; m. FRANCES KENNY.
v. ALBERT E. MURPHY, b. 1919; d. April 09, 1999, Charlottetown, PEI; m. MARGARET POWER.
vi. MARY E. MURPHY, b. January 06, 1921; d. April 06, 1988; m. JOHN CARMICHAEL; b. January 01, 1917; d. 1973.
vii. REGINALD A. MURPHY, b. 1922; m. (1) MARY ALICE HAUGHEY; d. 1971; m. (2) MARY ANN SCHNEIDER.
viii. GENEVIEVE A. MURPHY, b. 1927; d. 1982; m. LEO KENNY.
15. JOSEPH S.3 MURPHY (MARY2 HENNESSEY, MICHAEL1) was born 1882, and died 1957. He married NORA O'SHEA.
i. GEORGE4 MURPHY, b. 1911; d. 1978; m. FRANCES MATRUSKI.

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