Ancestors
The Kennedy family originally came from Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland. In 1848, Patrick Kennedy left his farm and boarded a ship in New Ross bound for Liverpool on his way to Boston. It was here he met the woman he was to marry, Bridget Murphy. Patrick Kennedy came to Boston, took a job as a migrant worker, and died within eight or nine years, of cholera. He left behind a widow and children to carry on.
Ancestors of John F. Kennedy| 16. James Kennedy | ||||||||||||||||
| 8. Patrick Kennedy | ||||||||||||||||
| 17. Maria Kennedy | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. P. J. Kennedy | ||||||||||||||||
| 18. Philip Murphy | ||||||||||||||||
| 9. Bridget Murphy | ||||||||||||||||
| 19. Mary Barron | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ||||||||||||||||
| 10. James Hickey | ||||||||||||||||
| 5. Mary Augusta Hickey | ||||||||||||||||
| 11. Margaret Field Hickey | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. John F. Kennedy | ||||||||||||||||
| 12. Thomas Fitzgerald | ||||||||||||||||
| 6. John F. Fitzgerald | ||||||||||||||||
| 13. Rosanna Cox | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. Rose Fitzgerald | ||||||||||||||||
| 14. Michael Hannon | ||||||||||||||||
| 7. Mary Josephine Hannon | ||||||||||||||||
| 15. Mary Ann Fitzgerald | ||||||||||||||||
Read more about this topic: John F. Kennedy
Famous quotes containing the word ancestors:
“Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.”
—Dorothy Day (1897–1980)
“Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)