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Thank you so muchHello Margaret, I just posted a reply and tried to upload a photo for you... and lost the lot. Sometimes I can't use this website easily. Anyway there certainly is a headstone... will PM
Thank you Margaret and Cando for all the research - I had trouble opening the pdf but I have a map and I know the section is near the gate en route from church every Sunday. So won't be long before I can have a look.I have just received a copy if a letter dated 18th December 1854 giving details of our great grandmothers death and burial in Melbourne. If it is possible to find and photo the grave we would be forever in your debt. The name is Sarah Hodgkins and possibly her baby Mary Ann Eugenie. The letter says Sarah is buried in Melbourne cement, 7 miles from Richmond in grave number 91. The intention was for a tombstone to be erected. Sarah died on 12th December 1854 and had been buried when her husband Frederick writes to break the news to her parents on 18th Dec.
Thank you so much. Margaret
You will need information on my post on Margaret's other thread. Anyone reading this may have difficulty locating her burial/headstone as there were two cemeteries in and near Melbourne in 1854 - Old Melbourne Cemetery [now under the Queen Victoria Market] and [New] Melbourne General Cemetery at Carlton.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=733475.msg5788821#msg5788821
Cando
I have an ebook available for download on the Comber history Society website see http://www.comberhistory.com/index.htm#alpha1 see the siubject index near the bottom of the page it contains these entries for mcKenna BUT I stopped work on it about 2008Thank you for that- looks like both sides of my family may be from Comber. I have Cumbers and Kennedys (and doubtless their derivatives) in my tree. Lots to look at- thanks again. Have a nice day/night
McKenna, Isabella , Miss. Comber Wife of William John Turkington; Mother of Margaret B. 1865 CR . , freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/
McKenna, James, Comber of MoneyreaghA Farmer; Will Probated 8 Sep 1856 IIW #45316, freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/
McKenna, Mary, Miss. Comber of MoneyreaghB. Abt. 1838; Married William Kennedy 6 May 1858 In MoneyreaghMother of Robert B. 1859 & James B. Abt. 1863 & Robina B. Abt. 1875 RAJ G8/71, freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/
McKenna, Samuel, Moneyrea D/654/A3/1N Freeholder in www.proni.gov.uk
McKenna, Samuel, Moneyrea D/654/A3/1S Freeholder in www.proni.gov.uk
Hi the other Kennedy co down topic going on currently with some possible overlaps is on http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.ireland.dow.general/16097.2.1/mb.ashxI see my reply to this message has not been accepted by the internet. I am really getting tired of having to repeat postings... and no doubt people thinking I haven't replied when I have. Sorry about that. My reply (again) was- thanks for the tip. I checked it out- that is actually my posting on ancestry's forum! But thank you so much for taking the trouble to have a look around. People overall have been so generous with their time. I am still quite new to this and am really pleased that things are moving along...
heres a James with a father WilliamThank you much appreciated, will check it all out
from
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/K/KennedyAJ.htm
interpreted as
William Kennedy & Mary McKenna
children
James KENNEDY . Comber of Moneyreagh; b. abt. 1863;
children
William b. abt. 1893
Samuel b. 1896 RAJ g9/71/82
that ref stands for RAJ Descendants of James Orr of Scotland -1607 onwards
Ray A. Jones Ray A. Jones; Lib Congress # 77- 82468 1977
On another query I answered this week I traced that a version of Ray Jones book is online were you the seeker?
some Mary McKenna’s, have their births and Marriage listed by http://www.ancestryireland.com/ and on www.emeraldancestors.com
No that wasn't me re- Ray Jones book. I have found two more brothers of James Alexander - Samuel Bailie and Joseph so getting there thanks to good teamwork, thanks again!
You will need to go back at least one or two generations to see how James is related to the other Kennedys and how a picture of them came to be in his possession.Okay will do! And thank you again for all your help. Will pop more names into my website and see how the cookie crumbles!! How exciting!
There could be a connection through the maternal line.
I think you alluded to a possible Black connection.
Not the rarest of surnames to be dealing with so a lot of careful research and paperwork to be looked at.
Tara
Heather