Category: Poems

Michael Britt Kelly (1808-1885)

This biography was created using the old “Story View” from ancestry.com.

Updated biography/sources for Michael Britt Kelly

Here is an analysis of my nephew’s Y-DNA results. Many, if not all, of our matches descend from a David O’Killia, who immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the mid 1600’s. A common ancestor with them is likely to be 12 to 20 generations back, so could go back to the 1400’s or 1500’s: Dean’s Y-DNA analysis

Here are a couple poems by a “T. Kelly.” I don’t know who he is, perhaps a brother or another son of Michael’s.

Andrew Alfred Kelley (1850-1914)

This biography was created using the old “Story View” from ancestry.com.

 

 

 

 

Andrew Kelley was a poet. He wrote several poems about his early life in Ireland and in the United States. We were lucky that a neighbor saved the original book of poems after the death of my dad’s cousin, Ida Martens Brus. Unfortunately, many of the family photos were sold for their frames at and estate sale. Here is a scanned copy:

Fugitive Pieces by A. A. Kelley

He also appears to have taken Aesop’s Fables and converted them to poems. The handwriting was a little difficult to read, so I transcribed them and scanned in the pages that correspond to each Fable:

Fables in Verse by Andrew A. Kelley

(These are fairly large PDF files. They may take a little while to load, depending on the speed of your connection.)