Last name: HENNESSY
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HENNESSY : This last name is indexed 69,958 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HENNESSY : Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAonghusa ‘descendant of Aonghus’; see Angus and compare McGinnis.
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