Unknown Jennings (abt. 1784 - bef. 1880)

Born about 1784 in Ireland [uncertain]

Descendants

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Biography

Unknown Jennings was born abt 1784 in the region of County Monaghan, Ireland.

Unknown was married to __?, whom he had children

1. Michael Jennings 1807
2. Thomas Jennings 1810
3. ? Dau Jennings
4. ? Dau Jennings
5. William Jennings 1816

Burial:  ?

Note: there are Jennings, Duffy, Thornton buried in St Anne's Graveyard in Drumcatton, County Monaghan, Ireland.

Historical literature soughtout by various researchers, state ~ JENNINGS of early medieval English origin, the anglicized version of the Irish surnames Mac Sheóinín-Google Books "or MacJonin" - (1700's). The Book of Irish Families, Great & Small" By Michael C. O'Laughlin. The two best known origins of the name of Jennings in Ireland, trace the family back to foreign origins. Some of the name arrived from England and permanently settled in Ireland. In the province of Connaught. Jennings (variant of Jenings) which stems from the Burke (de Burke) -MedLands/ IRELAND (at WikiTree) "Earls of Ulster" is Walter de Burgh c.10th Cen. in Connaught, Ireland. family tree. The Burkes arrived with the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century in Ireland. A branch of this family assumed an Irish name by becoming Mac Sheoinin and subsequently this became translated as Jennings. The founder of this tree is said to be one Sheoinin (John) Burke. Hence son of John, would become Mac Sheoinin in its Irish form. They held considerable properties in Mayo and Galway in the baronies of Kilmaine and Dunmore respectively. 63 births are recorded and,,. They claimed descent of which is given in the O'Farrals Line antiquity down to 1709. Quite active in all ranks of the Irish Brigades through out the continent(s).

"Mac Jonin" (1800's) ~John Jennings (physician). Irish Swordsmen of France, pp. 294–296 Richard Hayes, Dublin, 1934. Dr. John Jennings (fl. 18th-century) was an Irish physician. Jennings was a member of the Mac Jonin family of Ironpool, Kilconly, Tuam, and a cousin of Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine. He died young from a fever he contracted while attending a patient in the neighbourhood of Tuam. His death occasioned a lament titled Doctúir Jennings, composed by Patrick Greaney.

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