Person:John McEnery (34)

In a letter to Augustine J. Curley from Jack McEnery dated 31 March 1976, when he was 79, he states that “we as a family never lived in Limerick. My Father was a teacher under the National Board in County Kilkenny, and as children we mostly went to Co. Westmeath to visit our uncle . . . . I knew that my father’s father was Owen (Eugene) McEnery and lived in Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick. I never met him or any of my father’s brothers . . . . My father told me that his Father’s Brothers all went to America but he never knew their addresses or I think never saw them.”

He traveled to the United States in 1939, arriving at New York aboard the “S. S. Laconia” from Liverpool on 21 July. He was 42, single, and a teacher. This was his first visit to the U.S. He was going to visit his cousin, Mrs. Nash, who resided at 139 Prescott Ave, Grant City. [In 1931, Bridget McEnery Clifford, daughter of Eugene McEnery and widow of Robert Clifford was living at 139 Prescott Ave.] His closest relative where he came from was his brother Rev. J. A. McEnery, St. Joseph’s, Blackburn.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present).