This blog is an effort to trace and document the family history of this branch of the Kellys. Select a name in 'Family Stories' to read the history.

In due course more stories will be added as our history is documented.

1. POPE BENEDICT XV1 :

In recognition of the Irish Catholicism of our Kelly forebears, I viewed the happenings of last week ‘down under’ with more than just a degree of interest. Through the medium of Local and Sky News television worldwide, the eyes of Roman Catholic if not all Christians were upon the 23^rd (Catholic) World Youth Day events as they unfolded from the Opening Mass on Tuesday 15^th to the Final Mass held at Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse on Sunday 20^th July. The Opening Mass was conducted by Cardinal Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, and the Closing Mass by Pope Benedict XV1.

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My last posting was a tribute to Noreen Thompson for her 90th. birthday anniversary on 27 April 2008, the most senior living member of her generation of ‘The Kellys of British India (1870-947)’. In this post I shall introduce my cousin Maureen Cartledge (née Kelly), the only ‘fourth generation’ descendant of my mother’s youngest brother Oswald Harold Kelly to be born in Australia; after the general exodus of Europeans and Anglo-Indians from British India, prior to the indigenous population having gained independence from British rule on 15 August, 1947. [ ... click here to read more ]

Having just wished my grandson Christopher Longmore a ‘Happy Birthday’ for his 22nd. anniversary, I have been reminded of my earlier intention to post this tribute to my mother Avis Kelly’s cousin Noreen on the occasion of her 90th. birthday anniversary on 27 April, 2008.

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Please Note: My maternal Family History is confined to the antecedents of my mother Avis Rose HAYE (née KELLY), her siblings and their descendants, their names being in Blue print. As in the preceding posting to the ‘Kelly Connections’ website, it should be remembered that Patrick and Rose KELLY are of a generation preceding ‘Generation 1’. This should be borne in mind when relating my Family Tree to that produced by Richard Goodman elsewhere in this website.

Year(Circa)
1888 … It is not known of what caused Thomas Kelly’s death at the early age of 42 years. His widow Elizabeth Kelly (née Colbert), who would have been in her late thirties, was left to care for their five surviving children Walter, Thomas (Junior), Philip, Arthur and Rose Kelly; Patrick (Paddy) their sixth child having died when young. Walter, the oldest, would have been 15 and Rose, the youngest, around 3 years of age. [ ... click here to read more ]

A few days ago I received a slideshow of six photographs from my cousin Eileen Lindberg (née Kelly) of her meeting in London this year with a number of Kelly relatives living in the United Kingdom. [ ... click here to read more ]

EARLY HISTORY - GENERATION 1(1846 to 1872):

Please Note: My maternal Family History is confined to the antecedents of my mother Avis Rose HAYE (née KELLY), her siblings and their descendants, their names being in bold print.

Patrick and Rose KELLY
of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, U.K.

Being the parents of the First of The Kellys of British India (1870-1947), Patrick and Rose KELLY are for the purpose of my maternal family history of a generation before Generation 1. This should be borne in mind when relating my Family Tree to that produced by Richard Goodman elsewhere in this website.

 

YEAR(Circa)

? Pre-1846 … PHILIP , elder son of Patrick and Rose KELLY was born in some year(?) before 1846.

1846 (14 February) … THOMAS , younger son of Patrick and Rose KELLY and my maternal Great-grandfather is recorded as having been baptised on 14 February, the baptismal record being held in St Michael’s Church at Enniskillen. He would have been born shortly before then. [ ... click here to read more ]

To those of the KELLY diaspora worldwide, who are fifth, sixth and seventh generation descendants of Patrick and Rose KELLY of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, this posting will convey the greetings of just one of those descendants now living in Australia. [ ... click here to read more ]

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Please Note: My maternal Family History is confined to the antecedents of my mother Avis Rose HAYE (née KELLY) her siblings and their descendants, their names being in ‘bold’ print.

Year(Circa)? Pre-1846 …

PHILIP, elder son of Patrick and Rose KELLY was born in some year(?) before 1846.

1846 (14 Feb.)THOMAS, younger son of Patrick and Rose KELLY and my maternal Great-grandfather, is recorded as having been baptized on 14 February in the Baptismal Record held at St.Michael’s Church, Enniskillen,. He would have been born shortly before then.

1870 ¦Twenty-four years later, PHILIP , now a Ship’s Captain (engaged in the East India trade, between Belfast in Northern Ireland and Calcutta, an eastern sea-port in British India) brought his younger brother THOMAS
to Bombay, a sea-port in western India. A year earlier in 1869, the Suez Canal had been opened to sea-traffic and, since Thomas commenced work in western and not eastern India, it is reasonable to assume that Captain Philip Kelly decided to take the new and shorter route to the East, rather than the previous one around the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta. [ ... click here to read more ]

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