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Ralph Kenny 1810 Ireland to Canada 1830

 

Participant N70661

This Wesleyan Methodist family came from County Fermanagh, Ireland to the Gatineau (Ottawa/Hull) Quebec, Canada in 1830. We know nothing of their Irish past, nor do we have anything on the father or potential siblings.

1) Unknown Kenny & Alice (nee?) Kenny (1779-1854)
No reference to her husband has been found.
Her children: sons Robert (1808-1896), Ralph (1810-ca.1901), John (1821-1859), and daughter Letitia (1818-1879).
Alice is buried next to son John, in the Bellevue Cemetery, Aylmer.

2) Ralph Kenny (1810-bef1902), Kingsmere Road, who married Jane Edey (1818-bef 1902).
Ralph Kenny moved to a farm in Finch Township, Stormont County, about 1862. They are buried in the Morewood, Ontario, United Church Cemetery. These are participant’s grandparents

3) Private

4) Participant N70661

Information about Alice’s other children:

Robert Kenny (1808-1896), of Aylmer, married Elizabeth Grimes (1811-1899). Robert Kenny was quite successful as a lumberer, farmer and involved citizen. His offspring were, and are still prominent in the Gatineau, Buckingham and Thurso areas.

Letitia Kenny (1818-1879), married (1847 – Hull Township) John H. Highland (1824-1865). They had a daughter, Sarah Letitia Heyland, b. 1852 Eardley, Quebec, and christened March 1855 in St James Church, Hull.
Letitia Kenny and family moved to Wilksport, Lambton Cty., in western Ontario, after 1855.

John Kenny (1821-1859), of Aylmer, who may have married Simon Hill’s daughter, Elizabeth. From History of the Ottawa Valley: “Simon Hill, lumbered, then furnished lime, and had a farm north of village. His daughter (Elizabeth) married first, a Mr. Kenny, the after his death, Mr. Joseph Neil.” John Kenny is buried with his infant daughters, in the Bellevue Cemetery, Aylmer.

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Georgia Kinney Bopp
Revised 2 August 2009