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The Getz, Kennedy, and Bueg family history
For more information, see http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=girlmommy&recno=0 Thomas KENNEDY was born in Ireland, and married
Alice Mary RIGGS. Their twin sons, William
Joseph
and Richard were born in New York in
1880, and raised at Father Baker's Orphanage in
Lackawanna
after their father was lost at sea
off Newfoundland. William Joseph married Catherine
BUEG (1878-1969). She was third of 16 children of
Mary Elizabeth LAUER and John Bueg, who emigrated
from Germany after his first wife and child were
shot by the czar's army. Teresa Albina Kennedy
(1912-1984), ninth of William and Catherine's 16
children, married William Franklin GETZ (1910-1980,
first of 10 children of Norman Getz and Elma
FIEDLER) on July 8, 1936. Together they had seven
children. Each of their five girls were given
first names beginning with "A", middle names
starting with "M",and took confirmation names
beginning with "D", making their initials "AMDG",
for "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam" ("to the greater
glory of God",motto of the Jesuits). The family
now numbers 29 grandchildren and 41 great-grandchildren.
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