Birth Name: Arthur William Matthew Carney
Date of Birth: November 4, 1918
Place of Birth: Mount Vernon, New York
Date of Death: November 9, 2003
Place of Death: Cheshire, Connecticut
Ethnicity: Irish
Art Carney was an American actor.
Art’s paternal grandparents were Matthew Carney (the son of Patrick Carney and Bridget Seery) and Sarah Ellen Quinn (the daughter of Patrick Quinn and Mary de la Roche/Roach). Matthew was born in West Meath, Ireland. Sarah was born in New Hampshire, to a father from Ballygar, Galway, Ireland, and a mother from Newfoundland, of Irish origin.
Art’s maternal grandparents were John Farrell (the son of Edward Farrell and Mary Finn) and Bridget E. Fleming (the daughter of Nicholas Fleming and Catherine Barrow). John and Bridget were Irish.
Sources: Genealogy of Art Carney – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Art Carney (focusing on his father’s side) – http://www.geni.com
Art’s mother on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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