Finnerty O'Finnerty Clans of Eire

Hello everyone! Always been interested in genealogy.
Always good to see family gatherings. Good job ! :-)  

After my General Certificate of Secondary Education
I got my commercial college degree
and went back to high school for my A-levels
then I finished my training period to be a Webdesigner
now I have been a self-employed Webdesigner for 4 years.

I have been raised and educated in Germany, but spent most of my vacations in Ireland with my relatives. My current residence is near to Frankfurt in Germany. 
Address available on request. Have a nice day!

Unfortuately I never really spent a lot of time living with my Irish relatives. Maybe just about a month of visits; spread out over a year, for a couple of families, during holidays; had to do! So came the time with Mickey and Phyllis from Tullintuppen, Balligear at wich I could not resist to keep bugging them with questions for a whole week. I started worrying, that this load of questions in my mind might turn into sudden torture to the absorptive, but fortunately they were very happy that I was there to show some interest on family history.
Well, as stated above, this took me about one week, but to the end of that week I got my family kinda sorted out into an unprintable/[conventionally-]unreadable format with over 80 people. luckily for me I was BIG TIME into [database developing for front- and backend]. I just kept expanding my development during the late night to fit the needs of upcoming questions for the next round of speeches of the next day. I guess it was work or something, that, in the end, made me give up continuing this - odysee - because then suddenly birdies started to twitter around plans and got my posibilities to suddenly multitpy my relatives severly into dizzyness. Yes, possibilities; because I could not dedicate my work-time back then into souch a huge project worth a couple of months -time and -money. "What's on your mind?", it asked me ... well, basically this is it! This is what I throw out there into the open for you folks for now.
If someone wants to get back to me about this there seems to be the possibility for poping me by some mail over this sites massaging system - alltough it might take some time for me to get back to you; as OFINNERTY may affirm, sendig me the "please fill in a member profile" thrice, until I actually did ;-) ... So, yeah - nice site, great project - Thanks for you attention. Take care! Alec.

Peter J. & Josephine Finnerty are my Mother's Parents.
My Mother is Pauline Ann Finnerty Bowen.
She got married to Roy Hamilton-Bowen.
I was born in Seligenstadt (Germany) in 1989.

Richard Finnerty

I am married to James Wise, we have a 22 year old daughter, Olivia. I am the Bereavement Coordinator for the Visiting Nurse Association Hospice and the VNA Phoenix Center for grieving children and teens.

My paternal grandfather was a Finnerty from Tuam, County Galway. Michael Finnerty son of Patrick Finnerty and Mary Carney Finnerty in 1909. He had 3 sisters and 2 brothers, Margaret, Julia, Mary, James and Thomas.

Presently [ 2012] the elected Cennaire of the O'Finnertys, having risen from Tanaiste due to the passing of our Chieftain Peter J. Finnerty.

Native of Wyoming USA

Resident of Honolulu, Hawaii. Irish roots: Tynagh Galway Ire. BA History and Social Studies University Wyoming.

Lt. Colonel U.S. Air Force, retired after 30 years. A rated Pilot and Navigator

Hobbies: Too Many- Ancient Irish History, Genealogy, Skiing, Scuba, Mountain Hiking

Presently publishing a family genealogy of the 8 families of my 4 grandparents.

Has published one book on the O'Finnertys and presently on the verge of publishing another book.

Irish ancestors are Finnerty, Keone and Whelan of Tynagh Parish [Tine], county Galway

Family name is Finnerty:  My oldest paternal great grand parents were John Finnerty and Bridget Keone. Their marriage record is in the St. Laurence Parish records for Tynagh [Tine] village which lies just southeast of Loughrea in southeast Galway. John and Bridget would have been born in the late 1700s. Family tradition holds they moved to Barnaculla an area a couple of miles north of Tynagh. Johns son Thomas Finnerty married Catherine Whelan in the St. Laurence church. There are still Whelans in the Barnaculla area, however no Finnertys or Keones, The Whelans of Tynagh pronounce their name as in "wheel" not "whey." There were numerous Finertys recorded in marriages and baptisms and as sponsors, recorded in the Tynagh records. The name is recorded as both Finnerty and Finerty, and became Finnerty in the USA. John and Bridget did not migrate during the famine, however all the sons and daughters migrated to Clinton MA, USA and some worked in the woolen mills. Son James remained in Clinton and I have his family records. Sons John and Thomas married in Clinton and they and their sisters migrated to the Red Granite region in the Northwest Territory, now Wisconsin where they became farmers. John remained in the Red Granite/Green Lake region, however my ancestor Thomas migrated to new lands in Iowa where they homesteaded land and one grandson as I recall became a county sheriff in Iowa. My ancestors descend from Thomas and later migrated to Dakota Territory and homsteaded land in what is the state of South Dakota.  They had extremely hard lives and survived the drougth, famine and the Great Depression, also known as the Dust Bowl.  Most were farmenrs, however two of Thomas' sons also became a county sheriffs, one in Minnesota and one in South Dakota. 

Thanks for the lovely website. My Dad was Cennaire (Chieftan) of the family until he died

in 2008 R.I.P. My brother, Kieran, sent me the link. I live in Germany and have 2 sons,

Robert and Alec Bowen. I work as a natural healing practitioner.

You can look me up: www.IrishHealing.de

Keep up the great work ;-)

My maiden name was Finnerty.

My father's name was Peter J. Finnerty (Cennaire [Chieftain] ) R.I.P.

and my mother's name is Josephine Finnerty, Dublin.

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Maternal garndmother was a Finnerty.

I have always had an interest in family history and this increased when I lived in London for a couple of years and travelled through Ireland. I currently reside in Christchurch New Zealand.  

My Father was Anthony Joseph Francis Finnerty.  His father was Fergus Finnerty (Born 1909, Died 1957) and his father was Lawrence Finnerty who left Galway to come to Bluff, New Zealand. He married a Jane Pay in 1888.

I was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA USA and am one of 10 children of Vincent DePaul Coughlin and Anna Fenerty-Coughlin. My Maternal Grandparents are David Eugene Fenerty and Anna C. Montague-Fenerty. In the year 1847 my GG Grandfather, Owen Fennaughty (Finity, Finnity, Finerty), his 4 brothers and his parents William Fennaughty and Ellen Loftus-Fennaughty set out for a new life in the USA. William and Ellen and young William perished on the ship, but the brothers' Owen, Denis, Martin, and Anthony made it safely to the US. they settled in Philadelphia, but before long, Martin and Anthony migrated to and settled in New Orleans, LA USA. 

I was born June 20, 1953, am married to Stephen and am the mother of Kimberly and Karen. 

I have been researching my and my husbands families for appx. 5 years now. 

My Mother,s maiden name was Fenerty. 

Ancestor Tynagh Galway Ire. Jeffrey Nelson

My paternal Grandmother was a Finnerty