ÁRBOL GENEALÓGICO
N MOONEY
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N Mooney. Padre de:

1. John Mooney. Nació en 1803 en Streamstown, Co. Westmeath, Irlanda. Censado en 1869 en CBsAs, como "soltero" cuando debió decir "viudo". Llegó al Plata en 1827/28, según Thomas Murray, junto a Patrick Brown, y a ellos ha de atribuirse, según Murray, la venida de tantos irlandeses de Co. Wexford. Falleció el 13.11.1873 en BsAs. Casado en matrimonio con ___. Con descendencia.

2. Mary Mooney. Nació en en Co. Wexford, Irlanda. Falleció el 12.8.1873 en BsAs. Casada en matrimonio en 1835 en Argentina, con Patrick Bookey. Con descendencia. (ver genealogía de Patrick Bookey).

1. “Another Irish man, John Thomond O'Brien from Co. Wicklow, also was prominent in the war of Independence, being adjutant to San Martin. It is said that San Martin asked O'Brien to go back to Ireland for 200 emigrants. Argentina was then a country of vast unclaimed lands. O'Brien spent the 1827/28 period trying to recruit emigrants in Ireland, but without success. However, he met a John Mooney of Streamstown, near Ballymore, Co. Westmeath. This was to be the start of the Irish emigration to Argentina from the Westmeath/Longford/North Offaly area because Mooney went to Argentina in 1828 when O'Brien was returning. In addition to John Mooney, his sister, Mary Bookey (nee Mooney) and her husband, Patrick Bookey, went with O'Brien. They were to achieve rapid success in farming in Argentina and, due to this success, Mooney wrote home to Westmeath for emigrants to come out and help him farm the vast lands they had found. People in Westmeath responded in large numbers, from the 1820s onwards, and right through the 19th century, and even up to 1914, emigrated to Argentina. As it was John Mooney and Patrick Bookey who started off this emigration from the Irish Midlands, a few words about both of them is appropriate at this stage. John Mooney was born in 1803 in Streamstown, Co. Westmeath, and arrived in Buenos Aires in 1828, where he became involved in farming. In the 1869 census in Buenos Aires, he was described as a bachelor but was actually a widower. The records show that he had children but no names are shown nor is his wife's name recorded. He died in Buenos Aires in 1873. His brother-in-law, Patrick Bookey, was, born in Ireland about 1810 and arrived in Buenos Aires in 1828, and his name appears in the 1869 Buenos Aires census. It is mentioned that, soon after his arrival, he was the owner of 900 acres containing magnificent gardens and plantations containing no less than two million trees. This became a model farm and is now the property of the University of La Plata. Bookey had a respected position among the Irish community in Buenos Aires. He was treasurer of the Irish Hospital. In 1835, he married Mary Mooney (sister of John Mooney) in Argentina. They had six children, Catalina, Margarita, Maria, Patricio, Guillermo and Tomas. Bookey died in 1883, and Mary Bookey in 1873 in Buenos Aires”. Los Irlandeses en la Argentina by Pat Nally, Secretary, Longford-Westmeath Argentina Society