Ancestor Report
generation I
1 (0) | Andrew Jaimson Mitchell PRIVACY FILTER |
generation II (Parents)
2 (1) | Steven Clark Mitchell PRIVACY FILTER |
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3 (1) | Pamela Sue McCray PRIVACY FILTER |
generation III (Grandparents)
4 (2) | Woodrow Edward Mitchell Born 10 May 1914 Stearns County, Minnesota, died 22 Apr 1950 St. Louis County, Minnesota Event Description: Calvary Cemetery, Villard, Minnesota, age 35 years, buried Villard, Pope County, Minnesota Fyrn and her brother Woodrow were 2C on the Gaffaney side and 2C1R o n the Rooney side to Catherine Martin and Jame Gaffaney descendants . So a double relation. |
Married 5 May 1939, age 24 years (married 10 years) to: | |
5 (2) | Ethel May "Ethel" Bennett Born 31 Jan 1914 Minnesota, died 8 Sep 1980 Fremont, Alameda County, California, age 66 years |
generation IV (Great-Grandparents)
8 (4) | Paul Dennis "Mae" Mitchell Born 12 Sep 1885 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota, died 19 Oct 1923 Villard, Pope County, Minnesota Event Description: Calvary Cemetery, Villard, Minnesota, age 38 years |
Married 13 Jun 1913, age 27 years (married 10 years) to: | |
9 (4) | Mary Ellen "Mae" Gaffaney Born 6 Feb 1892 Leven Township, Pope County, Minnesota, died 14 Jan 1995 Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota Event Description: Calvary Cemetery, Villard, Minnesota, age 102 years, buried Villard, Pope County, Minnesota 1892-1995 MARY ELLEN "MAE" NELSON "Mae" Nelson died January 14 1995 at the Knute Nelson Memorial home at the age of 102 years, 11 months and eight days. Funeral services were held Wed., January 18 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Bartholomew's Church in Villard with Rev. Klienschmidt officiating and interment in Calvary Cemetery. A prayer service was held the previous evening at Hoplin Funeral Home. Casket bears were: Paul Jensen, Richard Jensen, Bruce von Feldon, Barry von Feldon, Greg Olsen, Randy Olsen and Bart Anderson. "Mae" Nelson was born February 6, 1892 in Leven Township, Pope County, Minnesota, the daughter of Edward and Ellen (Shinners) Gaffaney in a log cabin. She lived most of her adult life in Villard. She was a member of St. Bartholomew's Catholic church and was active in church and community affairs. "Mae" cared for children and provided board, room and care for teachers, elderly and disabled individuals in her home. Surviving are three daughters, Fyrn Dobberpuhl of Nelson, Marg von Feldon of Edina and Edith Olson of Bloomington; 22 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren and 10 great great grandchildren; two sisters, Lorraine Ewert and Helen Stege, both of San Jose, California; brother Walter Gaffaney of El Toro, California, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Paul Mitchell in 1923; Henry Nelson in 1962; her son Woodrow Mitchell in 1950; her daughter Marian Anderson in 1980, and her grandson, Robert Jensen in 1987. |
generation V (Great Great-Grandparents)
16 (8) | Dennis E Mitchell Born 28 Nov 1843 Millstreet, Cork, Ireland, died 25 Mar 1922 Pope County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Donatus Catholic Cemetery, Brooten, age 78 years, buried Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota Dennis Mitchell's stone in the St. Donatus Catholic Cemetery, Brooten, gives the dates 1845-1925. Dennis Mitchell Residence was not listed; a 21 year-old Shoemaker. Enlisted on 5/17/1864 as a Private. On 5/30/1864 he mustered into "L" Co. MA 3rd Heavy Artillery He was Mustered Out on 9/18/1865 at Washington, DC Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.: - Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War (c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com Information added by member of SUVCW MN 2022 |
Married 1874 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, age 30 or 31 years (married 47 or 48 years) to: | |
17 (8) | Anne "Honora, Nora" Tracey Born Sep 1849 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died 23 Aug 1932 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Donatus Catholic Cemetery, Brooten, age 82 years, buried Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota |
generation VI (3rd Great-Grandparents)
34 (17) | Michael "Tracey on gravestone" Tracey Born ± 1812 Ireland, died 1 Jun 1874 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Padua, Stearns, MN, age approximately 62 years The "Tracy" name seems to disappear in the Gatineau valley after the 1861 census. Michael arrived in Canada from Ireland about 1832. |
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35 (17) | Ann "Anne" Rooney Born 1818 Ireland, died 1897 Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Padua, Stearns, MN, age 78 or 79 years Her husband, Michael “Tracey,” has a gravestone, but it’s not clear th at Ann is buried there. |
generation VII (4th Great-Grandparents)
70 (35) | Michael ""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? |
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71 (35) | Catherine ""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). |