Mrs. John F. Kennedy visits the tomb of Saint Salim Chisti in the famous deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri, one-time capital of the Moghul Emperor, Akbar. Cloth wraps are placed over the shoes of visitors before they enter the tomb ~ March 15th, 1962
John John meets Mickey Mouse!!!
Or should that be Mickey Mouse meets John John? Even Disney characters be on der kneez bowin’ to dem Kennedeez!
Family Tree; The Kennedys
The ancestors of John F. Kennedy were “famine Irish” who emigrated from Ireland during the Great Famine between 1845 and 1852.
P.J. Kennedy
Patrick Joseph Kennedy was an American politician. He was the father of Joseph P. Kennedy, Snr., and paternal grandfather to United States President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Born on January 14, 1858. P.J. was the youngest of Irish Roman Catholic immigrants Patrick Kennedy and Bridget Murphy’s five children Patrick and Bridget both hailed from New Ross, County Wexford, and married in Boston on September 26, 1849. Months after P.J.’s birth, his father succumbed to the infectious cholera epidemic that infested the family’s East Boston neighborhood. As the only surviving male, P.J. was the first Kennedy to receive a formal education. At the age of fourteen, P.J., as he was called, left school to work on the Boston docks as a stevedore to help support his mother and three older sisters. In the 1880s, with money he had saved from his modest earnings, he launched a business career by buying a saloon in Haymarket Square downtown. In time, he bought a second establishment by the East Boston docks. Next to capitalize on the social drinking of upper-class Boston, P.J. purchased a third bar in an upscale East Boston hotel, the Maverick House. Before he was thirty, his growing prosperity allowed him to buy a whiskey-importing business, P. J. Kennedy and Company, that made him a leading figure in Boston’s liquor trade.
He attended Boston College on scholarship and became a prominent businessman before entering politics.
By the time he died in 1929, P.J. held an interest in a coal company and a substantial amount of stock in a bank, the Columbia Trust Company. His wealth afforded his family of one son, Joseph Patrick, and two daughters an attractive home on Jeffries Point in East Boston.
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Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy
Mary Augusta Kennedy was the wife of Patrick J. Kennedy, mother of Joseph P. Kennedy, and paternal grandmother of assassinated US president John F. Kennedy.
She was born Mary Augusta Hickey in Winthrop, Massachusetts on Dec. 6, 1857, and was the daughter of James Hickey, a prominent saloon keeper, and Margaret Field Hickey, both of whom had emigrated from County Cork, Ireland. One of her brothers, Charles M. Hickey, served as Mayor of Brockton, Massachusetts. On November 23, 1887, Mary Augusta Hickey married Patrick J. Kennedy and they had two sons, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Francis Benedict Kennedy (who would die aged 15 months), and two daughters, Mary Loretta Kennedy, Margaret Louise Kennedy
Mary Augusta Kennedy died on May 20, 1923, aged 65, from cancer.
Mary Kennedy with daughter Mary and son Joseph
Family Tree; The Fitzgeralds
John F. ‘Honey Fitz’ Fitzgerald
The father of Rose Kennedy, JFK’s mother, John Francis Fitzgerald was JFK’s maternal grandfather. He was born on the 11th of February, 1863 in Boston, Massachusetts.
His parents were Thomas Fitzgerald of County Limerick & Rose Anna Cox of County Cavan, Ireland. He visited Ireland with his daughter Rose when she was a teenager.On September 18, 1889, Fitzgerald married Mary Josephine Hannon, his second cousin and the couple had 3 boys and 3 girls.
John F. Fitzgerald was educated at the Boston Latin School & Boston College. Fitzgerald was a member of the Royal Rooters, an early supporters’ club for Boston’s baseball teams, particularly its American League team, the modern Boston Red Sox. At one point, he was the group’s chairman, and threw out the ceremonial opening pitch in Fenway Park’s inaugural game, as well as in the 1912 World Series later that year. He served twice as Mayor of Boston & was elected to the US Congress.
“Honey Fitz”, as he came to be known, was a natural politician who loved people & loved to sing “Sweet Adeline”.
At the age of 85, he advised his grandson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was running for Congress in 1946. Honey Fitz predicted JFK would one day be President of the United States. Both of his grandsons, John Fitzgerald and Robert Francis, were given their second names after him.
John F. Fitzgerald died on October 2, 1950 & when his grandson became President in 1961, JFK would name the Presidential yacht, “Honey Fitz”.
Mary Josephine “Josie” Hannon Fitzgerald
Mary Josephine Hannon was born on October 31, 1865 in Acton, Massachusetts to Irish immigrants Michael Hannon and Mary Ann Fitzgerald, both from County Limerick. She was the sixth of nine children, only four of whom survived.
She was the wife of John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, the mother of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and grandmother of John F., Robert F. and Edward M. Kennedy. She is, as of 2011, the only grandparent to live to see a grandchild become president of the United States, as well as being the only grandparent of a president to outlive the grandchild (due to assassination, illness, etc.).
Mary Josephine Fitzgerald died on August 8, 1964, at the age of 98 years and 9 months. Her death came less than a year after the assassination of her grandson, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Family members claimed she was never told of his death.
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PHOTO ALBUM
At the 50th wedding anniversary of the Fitzgeralds are, left to right (rear), Mrs. John F. Fitzgerald, John F. Fitzgerald, and their daughter, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy. In the front are the grandchildren, Kathleen, Robert and Eunice Kennedy ~ 4 Dec. 1939
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The scene at the Kennedy home in Palm Beach as Joseph Kennedy, US Ambassador to London, attended the birthday party of his father-in-law, John F. Fitzgerald, former Mayor of Boston. Left to right at the 77th birthday celebration are, Mrs. and Mr. Fitzgerald, their daughter, Mrs. Kennedy and Ambassador Kennedy ~ 12 February 1940
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Lieutenant John F. Kennedy stands with his mother, Rose, and her parents, Mr. Joseph ‘Honey Fitz’ Fitzgerald (former Mayor of Boston) and his wife Mary Josephine Hannon-Fitzgerald, after a speech at Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston ~ 5 July 1946
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John F. Kenney with his parents and grandparents on his election to Congress in 1946
