The fennessy Surname
fennessy Name Meaning and History
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnghusa
‘descendant of Fionnghus’, a personal name composed of the
elements fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ + gus ‘vigor’,
‘force’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| very few of us around | james fennessy jnr | 5 |
| A FENNESSY Family Tree |
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| Aussie connection | Ben (brendan) Fennessy | 3 |
| Fennessy's from London | Sioux Fennessy | 4 |
| Fennessy Book | Richard J. Fennessy | 2 |
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| missing Fennessy's | Sioux Fennessy | 2 |
| Thomas Fennessy soldier of Ardfinnan, died London? early 1900's |
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| Alice H (Gomoskie) Fennessy obituary |
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| Fennessy family - Argentia, Newfoundland | Maureen | 0 |
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