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Martha Celestine (Kennedy) Harcourt (1858 - 1912)

Martha Celestine Harcourt formerly Kennedy
Born in St. Anns, Lincoln, Canada Westmap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of
Wife of — married 24 Dec 1890 in Gainsboro, Lincoln, Ontario, Canadamap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , and
Died at age 54 in St. Anns, Lincoln, Ontario, Canadamap
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Biography

Martha was born in 1858 to George Kennedy and Betsy Moore in St. Anns, Upper Canada.

At the time of the 1861 Census Martha was four and living in St. Anns. [1]

Martha was married to John Harcourt 24 Dec 1890 [2] by Rev.Wm. Cruickshank of Gainsborough Township. [3]

Martha died 4 Sep 1912 of a cerebral hemorrhage [4] and is buried in St. Ann's Cemetery, St. Ann's, Ontario.

Sources

  1. ↑ "Ontario Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQWW-GJM : 5 September 2017), Martha C Kennedy, Gainsborough, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 5, line 41; Library and Archives Canada film number C-1048-1049, Public Archives, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,435,923.
  2. ↑ "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMVV-JNS : 11 March 2018), John Harcourt and Martha C Kennedy, 24 Dec 1890; citing registration , Gainsboro, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,870,468.
  3. ↑ Personal knowledge of daughter Mary M. (Harcourt) Leech as recorded as notes in her copy of Bottings' A History of the Kennedy Family p 6.
  4. ↑ "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDYN-3B7 : 26 March 2020), George Kennedy in entry for Martha Celestine Harcourt Kennedy, 04 Sep 1912; citing Gainsboro, Lincoln, Ontario, yr 1912 cn 19620, Registrar General. Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,854,859.
  • Roland and Cecelia Botting, A History of the Kennedy Family (Hutchinson, Kansas: M. J. Anderson, Jr., March 1957) p. 5.
  • Roland and Cecelia Botting, Descendants of John Kennedy of Sussex County, New Jersey (Tuscon, Arizona: self-published, 1989) p. 5.
  • James N. Perry, George Harcourt 1820-1889 and His Descendants (self-published, c.1976) p. 51.




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