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\n\tThe following is information extracted from an email sent to Tony Finnis by Rosanne McInnes (rosmci@gmail.com), Port Augusta , South Australia in October 2021 and reproduced with permission.\u00a0 The documents included below were attachments to the above email.
\n\n\tKeane is the\u00a0Anglicised spelling of a Gaelic surname and the spelling Martin Kain's family used in Ireland. They lived in the vicinity of the ruins of Kilmacduagh Abbey on the County Clare side of the boundary of Counties Clare and Galway.
\n\n\tMartin Kain senior is said\u00a0to have been one of\u00a04 brothers and 2 sisters who came to South\u00a0Australia after their parents died during the potato famine of the 1840s. The Mr. Mullens he refers to in the letter could be a nephew from Native Valley. His brother in law Patrick Mullins, married to Martin's sister Margaret Kain, died at Native Valley in 1873. (My 2 greats- grandfather was another of Martin's brothers, Michael, who moved to Native Valley in 1860 and then to Millicent in south east at about the same time as Martin Kain settled in Bridgewater).
\n\n\tAnother brother died during the famine. His\u00a0widow took their\u00a0children to a small town in Pennsylvania. Martin Kain's letter is to this brother's son, John Kane. In the\u00a0letter Martin Kain refers to his sister Bridget returning to Ireland and living with her first cousin's family. By 1880 she was in the US, living with the widowed sister of John Kane, the recipient of Martin Kain's letter, probably to care for her niece's younger children.
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