Kanavey/Kinneavy/Kinavy

I think that I have previously being in touch with you re your Kinneavey surname. Either way I dont think there is any connection between the Kavanagh & Kinneavey ( in what ever spelling ) surnames ! There is instances of the name in the Oughterard area at present , and I am fairly certain that I have come across instances of the name in the Clonbur district as well. It is an uncommon name .

Jan:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

For the short time, I researched your question I would agree with bishboy that Cavanagh and Kinneavy are not interchangeable.

I found two sites. The first is from John  Grenham and shows hwere he located records for variants of Kinneavy. The second site if you look under Kinnawe seems to indicate a connection between Kinneavy and Forde which is also a Galway surname.

Roger McDonnell

https://www.johngrenham.com/surnamescode/surname_variants_locations.php…

http://www.irishidentity.com/lists/k.htm

Thank you bishboy & Roger McDonnell for your replies, and Roger for the links!  

Jan Boyle

Hello Jan,

starting with the information you gave above, I added your keanavy family to the "Clonbur Familes" tree on Ancestry. It reaches quite far in Wilked-Barre and other places of the US. If you'd like an invitation to this comprehensive tree, or if anyone else would like an invitation, just give me an email address to which to send it. You may want to obfuscate your email address a little bit so the email-address harvesting robots that spammers use doesn't find it.

Hello Robert,

Thank you for sharing your Clonbur Family Tree with me.  I see there are many names that ended up in Eastern Pennsylvania.

In looking for my paternal GM, I had to look at everyone around her, and have many relations in my Boyle tree from Lackawanna and Luzerne counties.  You may find something helpful.

I appreciate your suggestion to obfuscate my email address.  How would you do that?

Janet Boyle

Hi,

My Gg-grandfather was Stephen Kannavy (b. 1860s Ireland) - his daughter changed the spelling in his American records. was Kinneavy. His family is from Oughterard and Inchagoill. His father was Martin and his mother was Katherine Philbin.  He too moved to the Luzerne PA area. I’m guessing that we are all related, I know I have a dna match to RKeyes.  He married Margaret Murphy in PA and his children were Catherine, Julia, Mary, and Thomas. I noticed that pretty much each Kinneavy in the tree named their children similarly.  It makes it confusing when sifting thru records. If anyone fits me in that awesome.  I know Martin’s father’s name is Denis m. Bridget/Catherine Cavanaugh and Denis’s father’s name was Denys m. Mary Lydon.  That’s as much as I have. 
 

Thanks,

Julia B.