Thomas & Patrick Fitzgerald Ballynavenooragh

Angela www.irishgenealogy.ie has Baptisms/Marriage for Kerry RC Diocese.I had a quick check & there are 2 marriages for a Patrick Fitzgerald that could be a possibility.
1. Patrick Fitzgerald Father Nicholas Fitzgerald/Mother Ann Stack of Lackamore TO Catherine Fitzgerald -Parents Michael Fitzgerald & Julia O Connor 12th Feb 1871 in Parish of Abbeydorney.

2. Parish of Ballyferriter 24th Jan 1871. Patrick Fitzgerald & Catherine Sears. No Parents names recorded.

www.historicgraves.ie is a work in progress but may have graveyard memorials for County Kerry.

Regards Frances.

 Angela Armstrong (nee Fitzgerald)

I too have Fitzgerald's from Ballynavenoorah. I have Johanna Fitzgerald of Ballynavenoorah marrying Hugh O'Connor of the adjacent townland of Clash Jan 21 Jan 1810 from the Ballyferriter church records. Never could find out any more info on my Fitzgeralds. I did take a DNA test at Ancestry.com and have gotten matches but still nothing more on my Fitzg's. Its unfortunete we cant get much further back than the early 1800's! I was lucky enough to visit the Dingle Peninsula in 2015... there is an ancient ring fort in Ballynavenoorah!

best of luck,

Mary O'Connor Tossell

Winter Haven, Fl

Hello Angela and Mary. I am new to Irelandxo having only recently discovered and joined the site. I see your posts are from 2015 so you may have received a lot more information since then however I will let you know where I fit in. My grandmother was Honora Fitzgerald born in New Zealand in 1878, she was descended from a Ballynavenooragh Fizgerald.  I have only been able to go back as far as John Fitzgerald of Ballynavenooragh who married Bridget Begley 19 Nov 1809 in Ballyferriter. I have not yet found who John's parents were as there were quite a number of Fitzgerald families in Kilquane at that time. John and Bridget had 8 children, one of whom John born 1825 my g,g, grandfather married Ellen (Helen) Moriarty in Ballyferriter 1846 and moved to Tralee where they had 8 children. One of them, Michael my great grandfather who was a supervisor at the Tralee Workhouse married a Elena Browne in 1873 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1874. They had 7 children of whom only one was born in Ireland, the rest in NZ. Three of Michael's siblings also emigrated, 2 sisters to Australia and one brother to NZ.  I came into contact with Peggy Stainer a few years ago and we shared information on our Fitzgerald families at that time and then again and more recently after we had both done Ancestry DNA tests. We do have a match, albeit fairly small but enough to make us connected. Have either of you done the DNA test and uploaded to Gedmatch ? Peggy told me  that a Tommy Fitzgerald born 1918 and died 2010 aged 92 and who lived his whole life in Ballynavenooragh had done a DNA test which hade matched her brother's. I have this Tommy as being a son of Thomas and Mary Callihane so he would be a brother to Angela's father ?If either of you have done a DNA test  I wonder if you would be happy to share your Ancestry profiles and test kit numbers. I do share DNA with a number of Fitzgerald descendants many of whom I have been in touch with and in fact found some fairly close cousins I didn't know about. I would be happy to send you a genealogy report of the Fitzgerald families I have been researching. My email address is carts2017@outlook.com.

Best regards, Dennis Carter

By the way, I fogot to mention that I visited Ballynavenooragh in 2016 and explored the old forts or "Houses" as one of the locals called them. Was intending to go back this July during a planned visit to Europe, UK and Ireland but of course had to cancel due to the Chinese Virus. Better luck next year.

Dennis