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PATRICK KENNEDY

*	Ireland
x	MARY JOHANNA (-----) Ireland
✝	Ireland
b	farmer

MARY JOHANNA (-----)

*	Ireland
x	PATRICK KENNEDY Ireland
✝	Ireland

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PATRICK KENNEDY

*	About 1823, DunganstownCounty WexfordIreland
x	BRIDGET MURPHY 1849 Sep 26, BostonSuffolk County, MA, USA
✝	1858 Nov 22, BostonSuffolk County, MA, USA
⚰	1858 Nov 23, CambridgeMiddlesex County, MA, USA
b	cooper

Patrick Kennedy was the son of a prosperous farmer from County Wexford, Ireland. He emmigrated to America at the age of 26 to improve his fortunes. He left a country in the middle of a devastating famine and arrived in an immigrant ghetto where thousands of his countrymen had fled to escape near certain death. On board he had met Bridget Murphy, also from County Wexford and soon married her. He worked as a cooper and died of consumption in 1858. He only survived 9 years in this country.

BRIDGET MURPHY

*	1821, DunganstownCounty WexfordIreland
x	PATRICK KENNEDY 1849 Sep 26, BostonSuffolk County, MA, USA
✝	1888 Dec 20, BostonSuffolk County, MA, USA
⚰	MaldenMiddlesex County, MA, USA

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PATRICK JOSEPH KENNEDY

*	1858 Jan 14, East BostonSuffolk County, MA, USA
~	1858 Jan 16, East BostonSuffolk County, MA, USA
x	MARY AUGUSTA HICKEY 1887 Nov 23, BostonSuffolk County, MA, USA
✝	1929 May 18, BostonSuffolk County, MA, USA
⚰	MaldenMiddlesex County, MA, USA
b	politician

Patrick Joseph Kennedy was the first Kennedy to enter into politics during an era of ward bosses that controlled the political machinery of Boston. In 1886 he was elected to the State Senate for his ward and served three terms. He married Mary Augusta Hickey, the daughter of a prosperous businessman.