Born about in Banks Peninsular, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Kennedy
and Sophia (Streeter) Kennedy
Sister of
Charlotte (Kennedy) McLane, Thomas Kennedy, Elizabeth (Kennedy) Ennis, Sophia Ann (Kennedy) Sullivan, James Kennedy, John William Kennedy, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Frederick William Kennedy, Emma Josephine (Kennedy) Curran, Frederick Henry Kennedy and Agnes (Kennedy) Streeter
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 96
in Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
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Biography
Being an early New Zealand born child, and living until the late age of 96, there were numerous newspaper articles about her childhood experiences in Akaroa and the Canterbury area. However, the contradictions in these stories do not help to clear up how her parents arrived, with several saying that they arrived in Wellington on the Aurora in January 1840, but at least one[1] supporting the family legend of her father arriving from America on a whaling boat in 1838.
Sources
- Christchurch City Library, Church Record archives - baptism and marriage
- NZ Marriage 1868/6029
- NZ Death 1940/17201
- PIONEER'S DEATH,New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23823, 26 November 1940(accompanying photo)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Amelia by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Amelia:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Amelia by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Amelia:
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~1.56%
Jason Rumney
:
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch UB7969334 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Jeff Thomas :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member thomasjbg
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Anthony Norman :
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