Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Kenny
Kenny. — Several families of this name are believed to descend from a Huguenot refugee who settled in Ireland, and whose son Thomas Kenny (died 1725) married Frances, a grand-daughter of Rev. John Courtney, Rector of Ballinrobe, and was the father of Captain Courtney Kenny. The eldest son of the latter was Thomas (born 1734, died 1812), father of Lieutenant-Colonel William Kenny (who met a soldier’s death in India in 1803), of Thomas, Junior (father of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Kenny), of Lieutenant-General David Crowe Kenny (father of William), and of Captain Courtney Kenny (father of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Kenny of Madras), The second son of the refugee’s grandson was another Courtney Kenny (born 1736, died 1809), father of a third Courtney (born 1781, died 1863), whose representative is the present Stanhope William Fenton Kenny, J.P., of Ballinrobe. The second Courtney had a second son, Mason Stanhope Kenny, M.D., of Halifax, Yorkshire (born 1786, died 1865), who was the father of William Fenton Kenny and of Rev. Lewis Stanhope Kenny, Rector of Kirkby-Knowles. A third son of the second Courtney was John, father of Courtney Bermingham Kenny.