This tree records both my paternal (Duignan/Cunningham) and maternal (O'Herlihy/O'Kennedy) families. At the moment I am  concentrating on simply adding names, but I will shortly begin to add photographs, and the sources of my information. Obviously,  for living and recently deceased relatives, a lot of the facts are common family information. As I have moved further back in time,  however, it is clearly important to cite my sources, and to explain how I have made some of the connections that I show.

The surnames are usually spelled the way we spell them today, even though this may not always be the way they appear in earlier  - typically 19th century - records. So, for instance, my g-g-grandfather Bernard Duignan is recorded variously as Degnan (1841),  Duignan (1852), Dignam (1854), Deignan (1869), but appears in the tree as Bernard Duignan. Also some Cunninghams  occasionally appear in parish records as Cunniam - the names are occasionally synonymous in Co. Wicklow. On the maternal side of the family, both surnames are usually recorded as Herlihy and Kennedy in the 19th century. My maternal grandfather Daniel (Dónal) Herlihy registered all his children as O'Herlihy at birth, and that is how they appear here. John Hargrave  Kennedy's second family called themselves O'Kennedy from the late 19th century onwards, and that is how they appear in the  1901 and 1911 censuses, and in various cemetery records; his first family never made this change. I have entered people under the forenames by which they were commonly known, rather than under registered or baptismal  names. I decided to do this because in some cases the formal name(s) bear little relation to the familiar name (e.g. Bertram Patrick Kennedy, later commonly known as Brian Dwyer O'Kennedy!). Any variant forenames and surnames will be recorded in Notes field (as of 7 December 2011, this may not yet be the case for all  entries).
 I haven't always been able to identify the maiden names of women who married into my family. Where this is the case I have entered  them thus: [duignan]. Names in this format are filed at the end of Names List.