Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland

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KENNEDY's from Kilmartin - 1840

From: Donald Kennedy
Email: kenned@compusmart.ab.ca
Date: 2/2/00
Time: 12:33:51 AM

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I have following info on family members leaving Kilmartin approx 1840. I would be most grateful for any information that might be available:

KENNEDY FAMILY HISTORY (Compiled by Duncan Kennedy on occasion of Centenial of the Municipality of Elton, celebrated at Forrest, Manitoba, Canada — 1983.)

In 1840 our ancestors decided to leave their homeland for a new country. Donald Kennedy (and baby Katherine), along with his brother William, and their sisters Catherine and Janet, left their farm in the village of Kilmartin-Argyishire, Scotland and sailed to Canada. They set up homesteading in the sixth concession of Dorchester, near Belmont Ontario. They were one of six families to settle there. It is said that Donald walked from London, Ontario to Ottawa to get the deed to his land.

From Kilmartin (1840)

DONALD(????—????)with baby KATHERINE (1838-1925) WILLIAM (1807—1874} JANET (1810—1891) CATHERINE (????—1899)

Re: Hugh McTavish, Mull & Mary Elleanor Douglas Boyd, Islay

From: Maureen Sullivan sullivan_home@hotmail.com
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Date: 3/26/2004
Time: 1:21:35 PM

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Dear Kirsten, sorry this e-mail is not to help you with your Hugh McTavish but my gg grandfather was, according to the 1881 census, born on Islay, Argyll, Scotland about 1838. His parents were Robert Boyd and Mary McKirdy. I have not been able to find any record of his birth and finding your entry on the net, thought there might be some remote chance that your Boyds and mine are connected. Anticipating the finding of a cousin, regads, Maureen S

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