Ancestor Report
generation I

1 (0)
man‎John Joseph Bowden‏‎ PRIVACY FILTER
generation II (Parents)

2 (1)
manJoseph Carmack Bowden‏ PRIVACY FILTER
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3 (1)
womanSheri Lynn Harvey‏ PRIVACY FILTER
generation III (Grandparents)

6 (3)
manDonald Arthur Harvey‏
Born ‎17 Jan 1941 San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, died ‎5 Jul 2010 Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colorado‎, age 69 years
January 17, 1941 – July 5, 2010 Don Harvey was born on a winter's day in San Francisco. It was January 17, 1941, the country was at war as Donald Michael Harvey and his wife Florene (Memmott) Harvey welcomed their little son into the world. Don would be an only child but he wouldn't be a lonely child. His parents had family near by … and his cousin, Russ, became a life-long buddy. In high school, Don developed a love of cars, sports and that "crazy new music" called "Rock and Roll." Don was a little bit more of a dreamer in those days and recounts to his children being told by a guidance counselor that he'd never achieve his dream of being a lawyer so he should start looking toward something else. Having been crushed by someone in authority, Don was an encourager of his friends and family to pursue their dreams despite what anyone else said. In 1958, Don graduated from Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California and went on to Santa Monica Community College. He stayed there for a couple of years and transferred to University of Southern California. You might say the maroon and gold of USC got into his blood and stayed there for years to come. When he graduated in 1963 with the Vietnam draft in full swing, Don decided to make his own choice and enlisted in the Air Force. However, his military career was short-lived due to a neck injury he received in a car accident in his youth. The injury was significant enough for the Air Force to discharge Don so he decided to go back to USC to get his MBA. In 1966, Don married Laura Craig and began his work for the Air Force in Los Angeles as a civilian in the Air Force's human resource department for civilian employees. Soon after, they moved to San Diego, California and then to Great Falls, Montana. Their first child, Sheri, arrived in 1968 and three years later in 1971 Donald arrived on the scene. By 1970, Don had continued to follow the promotion line to Civilian Personnel Officer at Minot Air Force Base, which meant a move to North Dakota. By 1973, the marriage between Don and Laura was irreparably damaged and they divorced. Don wasn't cut out for single life and found a best friend in a human resource coworker he'd met in Minot. That coworker, Ruth Ann (Bancroft) Haykel, said yes to his marriage proposal and, in 1975, they married in St. Louis, Missouri. The marriage was challenged right from the start with trying to create in real life a "Brady Bunch" out of their two families. Ruth brought with her daughters Lori, Lisa, and Lynette and Don his daughter Sheri and son Don. During the summers when they all lived together, they managed to create many memories, such as piling in the Bronco for the drive-in theater or Six Flags amusement park and almost always singing "Jeremiah was a Bullfrog" or cruising to the beach boys. It wasn't always easy to get the family together but they did. Don's kids lived with their mother who married Colonel J. J. Hansbrough and his military career kept them on the move. Don's job with the federal government also kept him on the move as well. Promotions sent the family to Kaneohe, Hawaii (Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard), then back to St. Louis (Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center) and then off to Chugiak, Alaska (Alaska Railroad). It was in Alaska that Lori graduated from high school and headed off to college in Washington. Just as Lisa graduated, the family headed off to Maryland where Lisa went to college and Lynette finished out her high school career and went on to college too. Raising girls as a stepdad isn't easy. There's a whole wide range of emotions that teenage girls never seem able to control. But Don was good with the chaos. He was protective when he needed to be, quiet and comforting when boyfriends became busts, and steady and firm when curfews and ground rules were challenged. Don was proud to attend his daughter Sheri's high school graduation in Germany in 1986 and his son Donald's high school graduation in Texas in 1989. They went on to college and Don attended their college graduations as well. In 1989, Don's career brought him to Colorado with Fitzsimons Army Medical Center and they took up residence here in Castle Rock. Opportunities for golden parachutes arrived for both Ruth and Don and by 1996 they were both happily retired. Their kids are living all across the country (California, Utah, Texas, Maryland, and Castle Rock, Colorado). Don and Ruth used that as an excuse to enjoy the adventure of travel but still had family to share holidays with too. Don would love finding new places to explore and especially to eat! So many of the kids' experiences with great food included Don or Ruth inviting them out to a restaurant they'd never try on their own. And with retirement and grown kids came the grandkids and great-grandkids they could dote on. Don and Ruth would make it a priority to spend time with the kids living in Castle Rock as well as traveling to see and hosting kids who lived all across the country. Many stories are told about Grandpa Don's wisdom of teaching how to cast a fishing line, ride an ATV, or philosophy of "in or out of the house -- pick one" and the preemptive strike of bedtimes that could start as early as 7 pm. Family was important to Don. In July 2003, Don and Ruth organized a Family Reunion in Estes Park and did it again last July 4th. Don started to slow down in 2006 and they found out the reason was prostate cancer. Like the trooper he'd always been, he set out to beat this thing and did fairly well for three years. This past year, his numbers started jumping off the charts and things started getting worse. It was with great joy that he set aside some of the fight and pain to celebrate his 69th birthday with his family, including all five kids, at the Brown Palace this past January. It was one of his "good days." Yet, from there the bad days just seemed to out number the good ones. Don spent the last month of his life in and out of the hospital. Till he was able to say with some impishness in his eyes-"can you believe it— no doctor in my entire life has ever told me to gain weight?! Now if I only had an appetite, I'd show them!" This past weekend his energy and fight seemed to be drained off him like the fluid taken off his lungs. The day after the fourth of July he could hardly summon the energy to keep his eye lids open, but he could sustain the effort to return Ruth's kiss. Monday night Don kissed this world goodbye and gave up all the pain and challenges of fighting cancer to be present with his Lord and Savior in heaven. We give thanks for this special servant of God that has touched so many lives in so many ways; son, husband, dad, stepdad, grandpa, great-grandpa, cousin, coworker, friend and neighbor.
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7 (3)
womanLaura Ellen Craig‏ PRIVACY FILTER
generation IV (Great-Grandparents)

12 (6)
manDonald Michael Harvey‏
Born ‎2 Aug 1911 Philbrook, Fergus County, Montana, died ‎14 Jul 1974 Riverside, California Event Description: (null)‎, age 62 years
  Married ‎27 Sep 1939 Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, age 28 years (married 34 years) to:
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womanFlorene Memmott‏
Born ‎7 May 1921 Fillmore, Millard County, Utah, died ‎28 Nov 1976 Brentwood, Contra Costa County, California Event Description: (null)‎, age 55 years
generation V (Great Great-Grandparents)

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manArthur Thomas Harvey‏
Born ‎25 Jan 1871 Dublin, Ireland, died ‎13 Aug 1962 San Bruno, San Mateo County, California‎, age 91 years
  Married ‎25 Mar 1908 Lewistown, Fergus County, Montana, age 37 years (married 54 years) to:
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womanMary Agatha "Agatha" Rooney‏
Born ‎24 Jan 1879 Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota, died ‎20 May 1965 Burlingame, San Mateo County, California‎, age 86 years, buried San Bruno, San Mateo County, California
generation VI (3rd Great-Grandparents)

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manMichael Tracy ""Black Mike" or "M.T."" Rooney‏
Born ‎2 Aug 1845 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎1922 Hobson, Judith Basin County, Montana Event Description: Philbrook Cemetery‎, age 76 or 77 years
Michael T Rooney (aka Black Mike) built the first permanent building in Billings, Montana . He was the first of the three brother to go to Montana. They first settled in Miles City, then moved to Billings, then Judith Basin. He was a contractor in freighting and ditching, and there's a big Rooney ditch above Utica, irrigating land on the south bench.

His Montana death index says he died in 1923, while his gravestone says is was 1922.
  Married ‎1875 Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota, age 29 or 30 years (married 10 or 11 years) to:
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womanCatherine Sophia "Kate" Darcy‏
Born ‎1844 Ireland, died ‎11 May 1886 Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota‎, age 41 or 42 years
Kate was injured in an accident and returned to Minnesota, leaving her two children in Montana, and died after a lengthy illness.
generation VII (4th Great-Grandparents)

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manPatrick Rooney‏
Born ‎2 Feb 1808 Ireland, died ‎9 Apr 1889 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Stearns, Minnesota‎, age 81 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Cause of death: Old age
  Married ‎± 1834 Ireland or Canada, age approximately 26 years (married approximately 35 years) to:
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womanElenor "Ellen" Tracy‏
Born ‎1816 Ireland, died ‎25 Apr 1869 Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Padua, Stearns, MN‎, age 52 or 53 years
Ellen died of a stroke.

The "Tracy" name seems to disappear in the Gatineau valley after the 1861 census.
generation VIII (5th Great-Grandparents)

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manMichael ""Daddy Mick"" Rooney‏
Born ‎1782 Ireland, died ‎12 Jan 1857 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada Event Description: St. Camillus Catholic Cemetery, Farrellton, Quebec, Canada, age 74‎, age 74 or 75 years, buried ‎Jan 1857 Farrellton, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada
Michael Rooney and Catherine Caulfield emigrated to Canada around 1845 (although there are land records showing Rooney's in the Canada farm census of 1841). In their 60's, they followed several of their grown children, the earliest who was in Canada by 1829. They settled in the Gatineau River region of Quebec, north of Ottawa, near the town of Farrelton (present day La Pêche).
The two oldest boys - Patrick (b. 1808) and Michael (b. 1809) - had their own farms in Canada. They also probably did some contract lumbering as this region was rich in lumber and this was the heyday of lumber being shipped by boat to Great Britain.

Michael and Catherine's grandson Thomas T. Rooney, son of John R. Rooney (1854-1925), was possibly a second cousin to his wife Ellen E Rooney (1872-1902). Her grandfather, John Rooney, would have been born at an age to be a brother to Daddy Mick. John's descendants coincidentally fit into the Michael and Catherine Rooney line when a granddaughter married married a Daddy Mick Rooney grandson.

As of 2017, it has been proven by finding DNA matches on Ancestry between the Padua Rooney branch and descendants of the Avon Rooney branch. However, the exact connection is still to be determined.

The Egan's and Rooney's intermarried eight times (all of the couples dying in Pope or Stearns County):

James Rooney (1848-1926)
Ann Egan (1846-1914)

Mary Ann Rooney (1865-1937)
Dennis Egan (1849->1910)

William Edward Rooney (1897-1980)
Mary Emily Egan (1897-1990). Mary was an orphan train adoptee, so not genetically an Egan or a Rooney, even though her "grandfather" was John R. Rooney. Also, her husband William Edward Rooney was one of the "Avon Rooney's." Though not genetically an Egan or a Rooney, even though her "great grandfather" was Michael Rooney on the Padua side, she married William Edward Rooney whose great grandfather was John Rooney the Avon side. Thus by prior relationship they were 3rd cousins, but unrelated by consanguinity.

Mary Rooney (1837-1905)
James Egan (1826-1912)

Eleanor Rooney (1842-1902)
Patrick Egan (1833-1892)

Elizabeth A Rooney (1866-1904) (first-cousin once-removed to her husband)
Thomas Edward Egan (1862-1928)

Martin Gannon (1848-1911) (son of Mary Egan and grandson of Thomas B Egan)
Catherine Kilroe (1859->1940) (granddaughter of Bridget Rooney and great granddaughter of Daddy Mick/Mammy Kitty Rooney)

Daniel Michael Rooney (1955-2014) was related to his wife, Karen Ann Majerus (1957-living): His great great grandparents were Michael and Catherine Rooney, while Karen's 4x great grandparents were Michael and Catherine. Thus, they were third cousins twice-removed. Also, Karen is an Egan descendent as well.

Including the three cousin marriages listed just above, there are these additional three:

In 1877, Sarah Margaret Tracy, daughter of Ann Rooney, married her first cousin, John J. Rooney, son of Patrick Rooney.

In 1888, Hugh M. Rooney married his first cousin, Winifred Sophia Rooney.

In about 1889, Thomas T. Rooney of the Padua Rooney branch married his second cousin, Ellen E. Rooney, of the Avon Rooney branch.


Randy Rooney says (May 2016):

"I have been in contact with my closest Y-DNA result match who has a genetic distance of 1 out of the 37 markers I had tested. His great grandfather, Patrick [Rooney] b. ~1845, was from Dundalk, County Louth , just south of County Down. Is it possible that we aren't finding Rooney's in the area of Parish Moore since Michael wasn't from that part of Ireland, but just started his family there because Catherine was from there? And if Michael didn't have strong family ties to the area, did that prompt their emigration from Ireland. It seems reasonable they lived near Parish Moore at one time if Thomas married Ellen Ward there, and Michael/Catherine are listed as being from Co. Galway on the Canadian marriage record of John Rooney/Mary McCool. However, what else is known about where they had lived prior to Canada? The more we learn, the more questions there seem to be…"

Earlier in his email Randy said: "Clonburren and Moore South graveyards, [the two others besides the Kilbegley Cemetery associated with the Parish of Moore in Roscommon], have been completed already [cleaning, reading and photographing old monuments], so you can see what Kilbegley eventually will include. I found the Moore South graveyard interesting since there were many Caulfield's, but no Rooney's."
Ten Caulfield's, to be exact.


July, 2017:

Looking at Geraldine Felling Walsh's Ancestry DNA pages. She and her siblings and several of her living first cousins are closer to the Rooney ancestors genetically than are any of the rest of us. There are a number of people related to her that have a Rooney in their family tree, but those Rooney's have no known connection to us. The furtherest ancestor any of them listed could be as close as a first cousin or a nephew or niece to "Daddy Mick." They appear so far to come from either Leitrim or Mayo in Ireland. Maybe they are from a "Leitrim" branch?
  Married/ Related to:
201 (100)
womanCatherine ""Mammy Kitty"; Catharine on gravestone" Caulfield‏
Born ‎1783 Ireland, died ‎17 Feb 1875 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: Padua Cemetery, Stearns, Minnesota, age 91‎, age 91 or 92 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
After "Daddy Mick" died in 1857 and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Farrelton, Mammie Kitty emigrated to the U.S.A. with eight of her nine grown children and their families. They came first to St. Anthony Falls, site the present-day Minneapolis, which was so small it could be covered in a half hour by horse and buggy. Later they moved to Stearns County, Raymond Township - a place at first called "Rooneys' Settlement, later called Padua, between 1865 and 1870.

Ambrose Rooney said that his father used to talk about "Grandma Kitty " and thought that there was something funny about her. Ambrose Gaffaney said his mother used to talk about a lady who smoked a pipe (Mary McCool, wife of John Rooney, smoked a pipe; Marilyn Rooney Lysen is now in possession of the pipe).