Found it interesting that Sen. John Kennedy (LA) isn't really a Kennedy.

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29. That's funny because I too have some Cassadys where the line abruptly ends in Kentucky...

...that's on my dad's side. And even then, the last name switches up a couple times. Cassady to (Joel) Cassaday. The line goes to Barren, Kentucky and it says it goes back to Ireland but I don't have any proof of it.

On my mom's side, my grandma's grandfather was named John Cassidy and he was supposedly born in Dublin, Ireland in 1852. He immigrated over here and a bunch of the Cassidy line settled in Ohio but he moved out west and met my grandma's grandma, a Delia Sheridan (I assume that's her last name) who was born supposedly in County Sligo but I have no proof of that (beyond what I've been told).

Delia? I have no clue who her parents are. Again, I think her name was Sheridan before she married but I am not 100% sure.

John Cassidy I have a bit more but it dries up fast.

His father was Thomas Cassidy. I don't know where he was born, outside the fact he was born in Ireland. I had heard stories about him that he worked on an orange farm or something in Cambridge, where he died and his body was shipped back to Ireland (this has shown up in ancestry records).

His mother was supposedly Winifred McFadden or McPadden, and she was born in Roscommon apparently in 1825. She's buried in Ohio. But her husband is in Ireland. So, I assume he either stayed or died before she came over. I have a photo of her and the Cassidys minus what would be my grandma's grandfather as they were all settled in Toledo and he was out west where he started his family with Delia.

I do not have anything on Thomas Cassidy's parents.

But apparently Winifred's parents were Michael McPadden and Mary O'Brien.

They were from Roscomon too and are buried in Ireland I am assuming.

That's where the line ends. But I don't know how valid any of that is. All I know for certain is that my grandma's grandparents were born in Ireland and they met in Denver.