John Kennedy (abt. 1758)

Born about 1758 in Canna Isle, Hebrides Island, Scotland

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Biography

THE KENNEDYS.

A very respectable family of Kennedys came from Canna, Scotland, to Cape D'Or or Parrsboro in 1791 in the same vessel which brought the Donald McLeod whom we have been describing. Only two of these Kennedys came into this district, and with these alone we propose to deal here. The other Kennedys in this County will receive attention when we are writing the sketch of their district.^[1]

Donald Kennedy and his brother John Kennedy (Red) came to Broad Cove from Parrsboro in 1808, and took up two farms adjoining one another a little North of Smith's Cove near Broad Cove Chapel. Thereafter both lived and died on those farms.

John Kennedy (Red) lived and worked on a farm adjacent to his brother Donald. He bought this farm with a grist mill on, the first in Northern Inverness from James Ban McDonnell. He got married to Elizabeth Fraser of Antigonish and had a family of five sons and two daughters. The sons were Angus, Archie, John, Alexander and Donald The daughters were Mary and Jessie.

Angus took up a farm at North Lake Ainslie and married Elizabeth McNeil daughter of Alexander McNeil of St. Rose. Archie took up a farm near Broad Cove Chapel and married Margaret Beaton, daughter of Angus Beaton (Finlay) of Mabou Coal Mines. John died unmarried. Alexander was twice married, first to a daughter of Donald McIsaac (Allan) of the Shean, and secondly to Catherine Beaton daughter of Angus Beaton of Strathlorne, and Donald was married to a Miss McDonald of Antigonish. Both Donald and Alexander left the County of Inverness and went to Antigonish. Mary was married to Ronald McDonald of Broad Cove Chapel and Jessie to Donald Beaton of Port Ban.

Sources

1. ↑ History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia, JL MacDougall, 1922, Chapter XVI - Kinloch and Broad Cove Marsh: https://www.electricscotland.com/canada/inverness/chapter26.htm

• The Participaper Vol. Sept. 2010.
• Canna Local History Group, Neil MacNeil’s census of the Small Isles of 1764-1765.