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Fermanagh / Re: KENNY family: Fermanagh to Gatineau, Quebec, Canada in1830.
« on: Wednesday 06 October 10 18:59 BST (UK) »
A footnote: a small piece of evidence in support of the proposition that Thomas was Alice's husband is that Robert named his second son Thomas (b. 1837). His oldest son was William (my ancestor - b. 1835), named after his maternal grandfather, although one of the posts suggests that the elder Thomas may have had a brother William as well. If it offers any clues, the other children were named Rachel (b. 1840), Richard (1841) , Edwy (1843), Miriam (1844), Jane (1847), Elizabeth (1850) and Marietta (1857!)
One thing that raises a question in my mind that needs exploring is my great-uncle's statement that Alice and Robert's siblings came to Canada in about 1852 after her husband died. By then, Robert was well-established and able to support her/them, but the siblings would have been in their 30s and presumably with families of their own. He isn't precise about when Alice's husband died, although the suggestion is that his death was what precipitated her move to Canada, to live out her old age with her eldest son. So that may well have been the timing -- or the date in his letter (written in 1993 when he was in his 90s) may have been a typo (1832?) Or some of the siblings came earlier...
One thing that raises a question in my mind that needs exploring is my great-uncle's statement that Alice and Robert's siblings came to Canada in about 1852 after her husband died. By then, Robert was well-established and able to support her/them, but the siblings would have been in their 30s and presumably with families of their own. He isn't precise about when Alice's husband died, although the suggestion is that his death was what precipitated her move to Canada, to live out her old age with her eldest son. So that may well have been the timing -- or the date in his letter (written in 1993 when he was in his 90s) may have been a typo (1832?) Or some of the siblings came earlier...