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Emailed Treasure

A few weeks ago I was emailed by a Ben Macauley who had found my blog post on 'The Misfortunes of the Hulleys' ( https://phelanatkin.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-misfortunes-of-hulleys.html ). Ben is descended from Mary Hulley, a daughter of Trafalgar pioneers Patrick and Catherine Kenny. Patrick and Catherine are 2x great grandparents to us both, which makes me and Ben 3rd cousins. Mary Hulley had four children, the youngest of which, Mary Kathleen, was Ben's grandmother. Mary K had been raised from a young age by her aunt Lexie O'Loughlin (another of the Kennys' children) and as a result Ben's family had never really known much about her older brothers, so was especially grateful to learn about them. Fast forward to this week, and Ben contacted me to say that amongst a selection of scanned images from his dad, there was one in which he hadn't been able to identify who was featured. But after seeing my blog posts (specifically the one in which Patrick Kenny is ...