Information sought on Kennedys

I am hoping to locate any current member of the Kennedy family who would be related to Denis Kennedy and Margaret Horan of Kilcullen, writes Royleen Wolski from Australia.

Their son Patrick, aged 27, single and a free man, embarked from Dublin, Ireland on the bounty vessel 'North Briton' on 12/8/1839 and arrived in Sydney on 14/12/1839.

During the journey, 20 people died of typhus, so that on arrival in Sydney all 305 passengers and crew were moved to the North Head quarantine station. Another 10 died there before they were released on 21/1/1840. Their 41 days in quarantine cost the government 558 pounds ($1,116).

The record of the ship and its passengers shows that Patrick Kennedy came from Kilcullen, County Kildare (50 km south-west of Dublin), he was a Roman Catholic and that he could read and write. Rather strangely, the record includes the fact that he had an alias, Cummins.

Any help would be much appreciated.


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