Kenmare
Co. Kerry
Ireland
Matthew Bennett and Margaret Sullivan of Kenmare married in RC Parish of Kenmare on 6 Feb 1842. The Witnesses were John Bennett and Daniel Sullivan. Bennett is an English and Irish language surname
related to the medieval name Benedict, both ultimately from Latin
Benedictus which means "blessed". Bennett is the English spelling of the
Anglo-Norman name and the modern French surname Bénet. The oldest public
record of the surname is dated 1208 in County Durham.
A famous Gaelic poet, William Bennett (c 1760)
lived in Co. Clare but was born in Co. Kerry. He was known as Buineán in Irish
rather than the normal gaelicised form Binéid. Buineán is actually a gaelicisation
of Bunyan or Bunion, the name of an English family settled in Co. Kerry, whose
association there is perpetuated in the placename Ballybunion, called by the
Four Masters as Bade an Bhuinneanaigh. Nearly
all these Bunion families have since become Bennett.
Children baptised in Kenmare RC Parish on dates shown were:-
Honora (b. 8 Oct 1843). Sponsors: Thomas Gill, Margaret Sullivan
John (b. 16 Oct 1845). Sponsors: Daniel Sullivan, Helen Sullivan
Martin (b,. 19 Jan 1851). Sponsors: Timothy Coffee, Helen Sullivan
George (b. 3 Apr 1853). Sponsors: Jeremiah Leyne, Sarah Palmer
Richard (b. 8 Mar 1856). Sponsors: John Bennett, Honora Bennett
Mary (b. 29 Aug 1858). Sponsors: Jeremiah Sullivan, Helen Kiely
Margaret (b. 14 May 1861). Sponsors: Denis Sullivan, May Lyne
Henry (b. 6 Aug 1864). Sponsors: Cornelius Downing, Johanna Sullivan
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