I am looking for information on my great, great, great grandmother, Mary McAuliffe, born in Ireland around 1835. She emmigrated to the US around 1855 and married Patrick Kenney. They lived in both Elizabeth and Bayonne NJ. She died in July 1909 and is buried in HCCC Cemetery in Jersey City. I don't know if she emmigrated with her family, her husband or with any siblings. I assume she is from Cork, as she is a cousin or Aunt to John "Jack" McAuliffe. My great, great grandmother Mary Jane Kenney Brown, claimed John "Jack" as a cousin.

I can't claim kinship with the fighter Jack McAuliffe but in 1892 he participated in a significant three-day boxing event in New Orleans, LA, USA. Family story is that my GG grandfather or G grandfather (maybe both of them), both named John McAuliffe, took the grocery money to buy tickets to see Jack McAuliffe fight. Jack McAuliffe won the lightweight championship over Billy Myer. Jack won $9000. The next day the fight was between George Dixon, a negro, and Jack Skelly. Dixon won $7500. I believe this was a featherweight championship. This was the first time negroes were allowed to attend such an event with white people. The third fight on September 7, 1892 was Johh L. Sullivan v. James J. Corbett for the world heavyweight championship; Corbett won $25,000, tax free.