Alice Augusta Augusta (Wood) Kennedy (1890-1971)

Alice Augusta Augusta (Alice) Kennedy formerly Wood

Born 21 Jul 1890 in Naseby, Timaru, New Zealand

Ancestors

Daughter of Edward Charles Wood and Sarah Mary Ann (Jewiss) Wood

Sister of Cordelia Mansfield (Wood) Leech, Helena Wood, Harry Ernest Wood, Emma Mary Ann (Wood) Stevens, Edward Charles Wood Jnr, Henrietta Maud (Wood) Wood-Rowlands, Myra Elizabeth (Wood) Harrison, Frances George Wood, Francis George Wood, Amelia Blanche (Wood) Mair, Ethel Octavia (Wood) Irvine and Sarah Ann Mansfield (Wood) Worrall

Wife of Percy Leonard Kennedy — married about 1919 in New Zealand

[children unknown]

Died 6 Dec 1971 at age 81 in Wellington, New Zealand

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Biography

Alice Augusta Wood

When Alice Augusta Wood was born on July 21, 1890, in New Zealand, her father, Edward, was 54 and her mother, Sarah, was 38. She was the second of the four children to be born to Edward and Sarah at Naseby. Alice was enrolled at Naseby school at the age of 5 in 1895 and left in 1905 having passed Standard 3. Her destination was “home duties”. Whether Alice went north to find work, or whether she initially went to join her older sisters Amelia and Eleanor we don't’ know. But by 1911 she was listed in the Palmerston North electoral roll as living in Carrow St, and in 1914 she is listed as being in Auckland. She married Percy Leonard Kennedy in Wellington in 1919 at the age of 29, an Ironmoulder from Wellington. She, like her older sisters, was a seamstress, and worked for a Wellington tailor from her home. They had two children during their marriage and lived most of their married life in Mornington in Wellington. Alice died on December 6, 1971 at the age of 81 and her ashes are buried in the Karori Cemetery Percy died at the age of 98 and his ashes are also in the Karori Cemetery. Granddaughter Jenny McGrane recalls his love of doing the newspaper crosswords. Magician tricks (from Uncle Vic) Uncle Vic had kept a book from his bookshelf about this art.

Sources

Birth Certificate 1890/12435 .
Wood and Percy Leonard Kennedy ; citing Marriage Certificate 1919/8137
Death Registration of Alice Augusta Kennedy, aged at death 81Y; citing Death Certificate 1971/47154 .
Wood Family History Files

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New Zealand Electoral Roles New Zealand,
Lower Hutt City Archives,
Hutt Valley High School Archives,
Census List and information Australia,
Census List UK,
Census List Scotland,
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Census of Canada,
Canada Voting Lists,
Nova Scotia Canada Births, Deaths & Marriages,
Australian Archives,
Archives New Zealand,
Archives of Ireland,
National Archives UK,
Scottish Archives,
Tasmanian Archives,
New Zealand Birth, Deaths, & Marriages Historical Records.
Australian Birth, Deaths, & Marriages Historical Records
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Anonymous Mair

From The Wood Family History Files;

Alice Augusta Wood When Alice Augusta Wood was born on July 21, 1890, in New Zealand, her father, Edward, was 54 and her mother, Sarah, was 38. She was the second of the four children to be born to Edward and Sarah at Naseby. Alice was enrolled at Naseby school at the age of 5 in 1895 and left in 1905 having passed Standard 3. Her destination was “home duties”. Whether Alice went north to find work, or whether she initially went to join her older sisters Amelia and Eleanor we don't’ know. But by 1911 she was listed in the Palmerston North electoral roll as living in Carrow St, and in 1914 she is listed as being in Auckland. She married Percy Leonard Kennedy in Wellington in 1919 at the age of 29, an Ironmoulder from Wellington. She, like her older sisters, was a seamstress, and worked for a Wellington tailor from her home. They had two children during their marriage and lived most of their married life in Mornington in Wellington. Alice died on December 6, 1971 at the age of 81 and her ashes are buried in the Karori Cemetery Percy died at the age of 98 and his ashes are also in the Karori Cemetery. Granddaughter Jenny McGrane recalls his love of doing the newspaper crosswords. Magician tricks (from Uncle Vic) Uncle Vic had kept a book from his bookshelf about this art.

posted 13 Mar 2016 by Anonymous Mair [thank Anonymous]

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Alice 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 Alice: