Category: Kearney

Mary Kearney married Patrick Carroll connecting the Kearney family to my family tree

Solving the Kearney mystery, how refugees from Northern Ireland settled in the heartland of Illinois

Connie Kelly

October 28, 2025

Carroll, Kearney, Radcliff

My maternal grandfather’s grandmother was Mary Kearney. She married Patrick Carroll in La Salle, Illinois in 1866 when she was 20 years old. Her married name then, was Mary Carroll, the same as my own mother’s given name. But finding her origins has been a bit of a journey. Mary and Patrick’s son, John T…… Read more