MACKAY Family of Victoria

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PLEASE NOTE - I have changed the title of this thread to reflect the correct surname as identified by the excellent work that follows.

Whitey
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I've been strolling around Trove over the last couple of days and noticed that the 29Dec1917 edition of The Mail (Adelaide, SA) records the following

"Mrs Len White of Beachport and Nurse McKie of Melbourne are staying with their mother, Mrs Canny of Robe."

I expect that Nurse McKie was in fact Alice McKie (nee Alice Canny) and that she was the sister of Mrs Len White,  my Grandmother (Marie Canny). I have almost nothing recorded about Alice Canny and indeed, I have been unable to find anything other than the entry in The Mail.

I have little to go on, so please forgive me for asking the wildly optimistic question ....

Does anyone know anything about the marriage and the descendants of ALICE (Canny) McKIE and her husband unknown McKIE who were married before 1917 and lived in Melbourne?

I have been researching the Canny family for a number of years now and while I have located a number of cousins etc, I have found nobody that has any actual records of the Great Grandparents we all share - Alice (Canny) McKie's parents, Denis Joseph Canny and his wife Alice Maud Mary (Atkinson). I now know quite bit about Denis and Alice, but despite the efforts of a growing team of cousins, have still located no family documents.

In their senior years, Denis and Alice moved from Robe SA to Melbourne to be with their daughter Eileen. They both died in Melbourne and are buried in Old Cheltenham Cemetery.

Finding a mention of Alice (Canny) McKie has rekindled my hopes that someone out there (i.e. the McKIE FAMILY) may still have records of the Canny family stashed away somewhere. It seems distinctly possible that the family records/photographs (whatever they were) may have travelled to Melbourne with Denis and Alice and now be in the possession of the McKie family descendants. Who are the McKie family? ....... I have absolutely no idea.

I'd really appreciate any assistance you may be able to offer to help me find this branch of the McKie family, no matter how trivial it may seem.

Am I an optimist? You betcha .... the glass is always half-full (or in this case never completely empty)       

Whitey

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Alice Mary Canny is living in 340 Albert Street, East Melbourne, a nurse on the 1919 electrol role.

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Thank you for that ... does it give Alice's age?

Freebmd tells me an Alice Mary Canny was born in Birkenhead, England in March 1875. I do not know whether the Alice Canny/McKie  I am looking for was born in Australia or England, but of her two sisters, Eileen was born in England and Marie was born in Bombala NSW. So maybe Alice was born in England too.

Whitey   

[cando]

At the same address in 1914.

Electoral rolls do not give ages only occupations.

Cheers 
Cando

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Thanks Cassie ... just what I need - another puzzle. The 1914 roll is OK, but if the 1919 electoral roll is the Alice I'm looking for, why was she referred to as Nurse (Alice) McKie in the newspaper in 1917

Whitey

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Many nursing staff retained their maiden names for their occupation 

Death:

MACKAY Alice May age 74yrs d. 1949 S YARRA #11072
Father: Canny Denis Jos
Mother: Alice Maud  ATKINSON

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Hi Whitey,

I was thinking that too. Only thng I can think of is that maybe nurses had to keep their maiden name for a reason.

I know I got married when I was an apprentice and was not able to change my name until apprenticeship was finished.  

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Her death notice

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22782130?searchTerm=alice mary mackay&searchLimits=l-category=Family+Notices|||l-decade=194|||l-year=1949

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A brother is mentioned Guy Canny