Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald

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Mary Josephine Hannon (October 31, 1865 - August 8, 1964) was the wife of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the mother of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother-inlaw of Joseph P. Kennedy and maternal grandmother of John F., Robert and Ted Kennedy. She was 49 when her first grandson Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was born.

Mary Josephine Hannon was born on October 31, 1865 in Acton, Massachussets to Irish immigrants Michael Hannon and Mary Ann Fitzgerald.

On September 18, 1889, Hannon married John Fitzgerald.

Mary Josephine Fitzgerald died on August 8, 1864 just two months short of her ninety-ninth birthday as a multiple great-grandmother.

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Name Birth Death Notes
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald July 22, 1890 January 22, 1995 Married on October 7, 1914 to Joseph P. Kennedy; had issue.
Mary Agnes Fitzgerald November 1, 1892 September 17, 1936 Married on April 29, 1929 to Joseph F. Gargan; had issue.
Thomas Acton Fitzgerald April 19, 1895 1968 Married on September 7, 1921 to Marion D. Reardon (died February 7, 1925). Married again on October 11, 1930 to Margaret B. Fitzpatrick.
John Francis Fitzgerald, Jr. December 7, 1897 1979 Married on April 28, 1928 to Catherine O'Hearn.
Eunice Fitzgerald January 26, 1900 September 25, 1923
Frederick Harold Fitzgerald December 3, 1904 February 1935 Married on October 26, 1929 to Rosalind Miller.

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