You can get a web-like map of the Kelly - Warren - Beck descendants.

Gramps' father's side, the The Irish Brigade:

In Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, NY, there is a tall obelisk with the name Gaffney. On three sides there are names of the three families Gaffney, Kelly, and Lydon. On the Kelly side are the names Patrick D. Kelly and Mary E. Kelly, who are Gramps' paternal grandparents, and two of their children, John Patrick and Mary E. Outerson. (Gramps' parents, James E. Kelly and Mary DeLacy Kelly are buried at Woodlawn, the Bronx.)
On the center Face is Patrick D. Kelly's father-in-law, James E. Gaffney, along with his wife and two unmarried children, Timothy and Hester. The 1850 census mentions him as a "boot maker". Evidently, he must have been a prosperous one because there are six apprentices living in his household, two of whom would be his son-in-laws. His son James H. is buried in his wife's (Deborah Green) family plot in Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. His daughter Mary married Patrick Kelly and his daughter Margaret married Patrick Lydon (third side of monument). Lt. Patrick Lydon died while leading Company D of the 63rd Regiment during the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The NY 63rd was one of the five regiments in the Irish Brigade. The Confederates were about to break through the center of the Union lines when the Irish Brigade charged them and held the line at "Bloody Lane". The 63rd and 69th each lost more than half their men in less than an hour.

In 1851, Patrick D. Kelly was commissioned as a captain in the 9th regiment of the third brigade of the first division of the N.Y. State Militia. In 1861 he helped form the 3rd Regiment of the Irish Brigade, which became the 63rd NY Regiment in 1861. This is mentioned in Gramps' father's NY Times obituary. Notice the date of death for Patrick D. Kelly, September 25, 1862. This is one week after the battle of Antietam. This means that our "Patrick Kelly" was not the one who commanded the Irish Brigade at Gettysburg in 1863 and died at Petersburg, 1864. We can still be proud that our ancestor Patrick Daniel Kelly helped form a regiment in the Irish Brigade.

Col. Pat, as our 19th century ancestors called him, emigrated to NYC in the 1840s with his elder brother Peter and his other brother Edward. His sister Elizabeth married and stayed in Ireland. The baptismal record for Patrick is in St. Muiredeach's Cathedral in nearby Ballina (bally-nah), Co. Mayo where their parents, Patrick James Kelly and Mary Brennan Kelly owned a dry goods store. Their parents died of cholera within two hours of each other in 1837 when Peter was 14 and Patrick 11. The children were adopted by their mother's two brothers, Fr. Roger and Fr. Peter who built the first church (after the Penal Laws) in Gorteen, Co. Sligo. (Gorteen means little field in Irish and there are many towns named Gorteen or Gurteen. Ours is not the Gorteen on the map next to Sligo town but is next to Tubbercurry and not on this map.) Mary Brennan's father was Walter Brennan (way before the one of movie fame). He owned big farms in Cloonacool next to Tubbercurry.

I am doing research in the Chemistry Department of the National University of Ireland at Galway until July 2005. I have been in touch with the Brennan family of Tubbercurry. Brendan Kelly, Uncle Howard's grandson visited with them in 2000.
I also hope to do some searching of the Mulry clan while I'm there.

Click on its name to get a present-time satellite picture of:
Ireland, and the remaining Celtic lands also (all subjugated),
If the picture is dark, with only the night-time lights of cities, there will be a box to check off to get a day-time picture.
You can get a web-like map of the Kelly - Brennan descendants.

Many of Gramps' great and great-great grandchildren are missing from this list. PLEASE contact me for additions and corrections!!!