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EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA

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EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA was a Grain Merchant for the Chicago Board of Trade. He started there when he was just a young man. At 19 he traded in his own name and had a seat of his own. Later, he was the Manager/Director of the CBOT then served on the Board of Directors.

EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA was one of the founders of the Hinsdale (Illinois) Golf Club.

EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA (EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA & JANE STEVENSON; PATRICK MCKENNA) b. 8/31/1873 Illinois d. 12/12/1943 Hinsdale, DuPage, Illinois m. CATHERINE ROACH.

EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA and CATHERINE ROACH had three children:

1) CATHERINE JANE MCKENNA b. 2/14/1903 LaGrange IL d. October 23, 1986 Hinsdale, DuPage, IL m. JOHN ALLEN MCELWAIN II 3 children. (See Link)

2) ROBERT N MCKENNA b. 1905 LaGrange, Cook, Illinois d. 1990 Brevard NC m. CATHERINE MEYERS 2 Children: "BABBY" MCKENNA b. 1932 & PATRICK MCKENNA b. 1936.

3) MARIAN MCKENNA b. 1901 m. TERRY OBERG. Children: DONALD E OBERG b. 1925 (son: TERRY OBERG) & JANE ELAINE OBERG b. 1922 d. May 2000 Washington D.C. m. 1943 to DONALD RODGERS.

CATHERINE ROACH & her daughter, CATHERINE JANE MCKENNA MCELWAIN were Christian Scientists.

There is a record for the 1880 Census in Chicago, Cook, Illinois which probably is the record for EDWARD MCKENNA & JANE STEVENSON, parents of EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA.

Household Record 1880 United States Census

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace

Edward MC KENNA Self M Male W 32 SO-AMER Laborer IRE IRE
Jane MC KENNA Wife M Female W 30 IRE Keeping House IRE IRE
Margaret J. MC KENNA Dau S Female W 11 IL At School SO-AMER IRE
Mary A. MC KENNA Dau S Female W 10 IL SO-AMER IRE
Edward P. MC KENNA Son S Male W 7 IL SO-AMER IRE
Anna MC KENNA Dau S Female W 4 IL SO-AMER IRE
Martha MC KENNA Dau S Female W 1 IL SO-AMER IRE

Source Information:
Census Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Family History Library Film 1254190
NA Film Number T9-0190
Page Number 340D

Notice that the son, EDWARD P MCKENNA is 7. This makes him b. abt 1873 which is the same as our EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA.

I have now looked at later census records for EDWARD P MCKENNA. The place of birth for his father is not clear, however, it definitely is not Canada, Quebec, or Ireland. It is illegible but by comparing it to the other names on the census record it clearly is not the places just mentioned.

There is also a record from Ellis Island for an EDWARD MCKENNA for 1912, age 39 from LaGrange, Illinois. This also makes him b. in 1873 the same as our EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA. There is no Ellis Island record for CATHERINE (ROACH) MCKENNA for 1912 or from La Grange, Illinois so I'm assuming she either didn't go with him or didn't come back with him.

ROBERT N MCKENNA of Chicago, Illinois, son of EDWARD P (PATRICK) MCKENNA, gave the information for his death certificate. He listed EDWARD'S date of birth as 8/31/1873. EDWARD was married at the time of his death which was 12/12/1943 (age 70 years, 3 months & 11 days). He was buried at the Bronswood Cemetery on 12/14/1943 in York, DuPage, Illinois.

At the time of his death EDWARD P(PATRICK) MCKENNA lived at 234 E 6th St in Hinsdale, Downers Grove Twp, DuPage Co, Illinois. He had lived there 18 years (listed in 1930 census for DuPage Co).

His wife was KATHERINE D MCKENNA age 71. His parents were EDWARD P MCKENNA b. Canada (same as tradition has it) & MARGARET J(JANE) STEVENSON b. Tyrone, Ireland.

On the early census records, 1900, 1910 & 1920 EDWARD P MCKENNA'S wife was listed as NELLIE who was b. abt 1875 in Illinois and whose parents were both born in England. Edward & Nellie lived in Lyons Twp.(Hyde Park Twp in 1900), Cook Co, Illinois. Their children were MARIAN S MCKENNA b. 7/1899, JANE MCKENNA b. abt. 1804, ROBERT N MCKENNA b. abt 1806.

Our subject's (EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA) grandfather was PATRICK MCKENNA. He was born in Ireland as was his wife, JANE. All of their parents were born in Ireland.

PATRICK MCKENNA immigrated to Quebec, Canada. At this time I have several PATRICK MCKENNA'S in Quebec. Our PATRICK MCKENNA would have been born, probably, after 1800. One PATRICK is in the 1880 Canadian Immigran Records- Part One for Prince Edward Island. I'm ruling this one out for the present. The other one could be our PATRICK'S son. He was 77 in 1901 (b. abt 1834 the age of our EDWARD MCKENNA, father of EDWARD PATRICK MCKENNA). This PATRICK MCKENNA was in the 1901 Quebec Census. It says he immigrated in 1847 to Canada. He was in District 157 - Jacques-Cartier, Sub-District A - Cote des Neiges, village, page 2.

In addition there is a PATRICK MCKENNA b. abt 1787 Monaghan, Ireland m. 6/10/1828 St-Augustin, Portneuf, Quebec to JUDITH MEEHAN b. 1802 Limerick, Ireland. Some of their children were Rose McKenna b. 1823 & John b. 1831 m. St Catherine Church Quebec 1892. They were Godparents for several baptisms at St Catherine, Portneuf, one being in 1837. Both JOHN MEEHAN & PATRICK MCKENNA appear in the census there.

There were two EDWARD MCKENNA'S in the 1900 Census for Cook Co Illinois besides our EDWARD P MCKENNA. The one b. in 1848 (as above) immigrated in 1875. He was recorded for the census in Chicago, Ward 12, Cook Co. Illinois. The other EDWARD MCKENNA was b. 1834 in Ireland. He was an inmate. He was recorded in Chicago Ward 10, Cook Co. Illinois. There were none recorded in 1920 except our EDWARD P MCKENNA. I'm assuming that his father died sometime before the 1920 Census.

MCKENNA SURNAME HISTORY


In his McKenna surname history, Willie O'Kane says that in Monaghan the McKenna name is numerous. McKenna comes from Mac Cionaoith, a Meath sept, who came into Ulster as a swordsmen for the Fir Leamtha of Clogher. The McKennas refused to pay rents on their lands after 1606. The McKennas were therefore dispossessed of their lands. Several branches of the family then moved north and east to Derry and Down.

He goes on to say that the last chief was Patrick McKenna who died 1616 near Emyvale. Patrick McKenna was one of the most famous bearers since Juan MacKenna (1771-1814). Juan McKenna and Bernardo O'Higgins took part in the liberation of Chile.

Some of the McKennas in Ulster were descended from Scottish settlers. Many of them were called McKinney.

This article was paraphrased from the internet but apparently was reproduced from the IRISH ROOTS MAGAZINE, Issue 2 1996.

FYI Trivia: On August 10, 1833, one and one-half years after Cook County was created (Jan. 15, 1831), the frontier settlement of Fort Dearborn was incorporated as the town of Chicago . Did you know that Chicago gets its name from a powerful Chief of the Illinois Indians, named "Chicagou" (Che-cau-gou), meaning "Great".

HISTORY OF QUEBEC


The name Quebec, which comes from the Mi'kmaq word Gepèèg meaning "strait," originally meant the narrowing of the St. Lawrence River off what is currently Quebec City.

The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross in the Gaspé in 1534 and sailed into the St. Lawrence River in 1535.

After 1627, King Louis XIII of France introduced the seigneurial system and forbade settlement in New France by anyone other than Roman Catholics, ensuring that welfare and education was kept firmly in the hands of the church. New France became a royal province in 1663 under Louis XIV and the intendant Jean Talon.

Great Britain acquired Canada by the Treaty of Paris (1763) when King Louis XV of France and his advisors chose to keep the territory of Guadeloupe for its valuable sugar crops instead of New France, which was viewed as a vast, frozen wasteland of little importance to the French colonial empire. By the British Royal Proclamation of 1763, Canada (part of New France) was renamed the Province of Quebec.

In 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act that allowed Quebec to maintain the French Civil Code as its judicial system and sanctioned the freedom of religious choice, allowing the Roman Catholic Church to remain.

Quebec retained its seigneurial system and civil law code after the conquest. Owing to an influx of Loyalist refugees from the US Revolutionary War, the Constitutional Act of 1791 saw the colony divided in two at the Ottawa River; the western part became Upper Canada and changed to the British legal system. The eastern part was named Lower Canada

IRISH TO SOUTH AMERICA


Some facts of the Irish emigration to Argentina. During the nineteenth century, forty to forty-five thousand emigrants left Ireland to settle in Argentina and Uruguay [1].

Approximately 20,000 re-emigrated to the United States, Australia, Ireland or other areas, and 20,000 settled in the country. A majority of the emigrants bound to Argentina came from the Irish Midlands (Westmeath, Longford and Offaly) and from Co. Wexford. According to Peadar Kirby, they ‘came from two clearly defined areas, south-east of a line from Wexford Town to Kilmore Quay in Wexford, and from a quadrangle on the Longford/Westmeath border stretching roughly from Athlone to Edgeworthstown, to Mullingar and to Kilbeggan.

Virtually the whole population surrounding the town of Ballymore, which stands roughly at the centre of this quadrangle, emigrated to Buenos Aires in the 1860s’ (Kirby 1992: 105) [2].

As early as 1842, during his ride through the Buenos Aires province, William McCann estimated that ‘at least three-fours of the [Irish] emigrants are from the County Westmeath’ [McCann 1853: 195]. In his study of the Irish migration to Argentina, Patrick McKenna argues that ‘the numbers from Westmeath and south Longford were to make up about two-thirds of the total number of Irish emigrants to Argentina’ [McKenna 1992: 69].

The same author, based on Coghlan 1987, estimated that 43.35% emigrants were from Westmeath, 14.57% from Longford and 15.51% from Wexford [81]. These were the typical origins of the emigrants who established themselves in Argentina until September 1889, when poor urban families and labourers from Dublin, Cork and Limerick were induced by Argentine government agents to emigrate to Buenos Aires in the steamer City of Dresden.

For more on this topic go to:

http://www.irishargentine.org/journey/road/

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