Tralee Co. Kerry Ireland
John Bunion of Tralee and Catherine Stack married in Tralee RC Parish on 11 Jan 1820. The Witnesses were Denis Sweeney and Catherine Durack.
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 on dates shown in Tralee Parish were:-
Matthew (b. 13 Dec 1824). Sponsors: James O'Brien, Catherine Connell
Catherine (b. 18 July 1827). Sponsors: James O'Brien, Mary McQuinn
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