Family:Dennis Kelly and Bridget Murphy (1)

Dennis Kelly and Bridget Murphy had seven children baptised in the adjoining Catholic parishes of Monasterevin and Athy in County Kildare between 1823 and 1843. The baptisms of the eldest three children (Judith, Catherine and Peter) are recorded in the Monasterevin parish records, each of which record the family's address as Boherbaun - presumably indicating one of the two townlands of Boherbaun Lower and Boherbaun Upper. The baptisms of the subsequent four children (Dennis, Michael, Martin and Francis) are all recorded in the Athy parish records, with no indication as to precisely where the family lived. However, in the Griffith's Valuation of the 1850s, there is a Dennis Kelly living at Plot 25 in the townland of Cloney (which falls within the Catholic parish of Athy and civil parish of Kilberry). This plot of land is right on the border of the townlands of Cloney and Boherbaun Lower (which falls within the Catholic parish of Monasterevin and civil parish of Harristown). It thus appears likely that the family had moved a short distance down the road between Peter's baptism in 1832 and Dennis's in 1835.

Of the seven known children, Martin and Francis appear to have both married locally to home in the 1860s, with each being described as living at Cloney and being son of Dennis (or Denis) Kelly, labourer. The two sons Dennis and Peter both moved to England, settling in the town of Birkenhead, Cheshire, where Peter married in 1859 and Dennis in 1862 - again their marriage certificates both describe them as the sons of Dennis Kelly, labourer.