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by Kennedy/Thomas
Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:33 pm
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: JAMES SHAND (1890-1956)
Replies: 11
Views: 25753

Re: JAMES SHAND (1890-1956)

In 1917 at Selkirk Agnes/Matilda Kennedy married Wallace Mayo. The family had at least 3 boys named Chucky, Buddy and Bruce in an unknown order. They were a Selkirk family but were known in Winnipeg. The Kennedy family has been estranged from the Mayo’s for the most part since around the 1980’s. Agn...
by Kennedy/Thomas
Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:59 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post
Replies: 16
Views: 28579

Re: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post

I have a theory about the Kennedy ancestor links in Manitoba based on stories from people who knew members of a Kennedy family quite well. Isabelle Simard/Seymour’s Uncle Roderick(dob 1901) is one of the Kennedy’s associated with Hollow Water area to this day. Another Kennedy was Charles. Rod once b...
by Kennedy/Thomas
Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:55 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post
Replies: 16
Views: 28579

Re: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post

Louis and Elizabeth Betsy Simard/Seymour -Marr. 1884 at Fort Alexander -Mining, Logging -Louis French from Quebec -Betsy a Cree Indian(Fisher River) John George and Juliet Kennedy -Marr. 1891 at St. Clements -Both St. Peters Treaty Indians -Juliet’s mother a Thomas -Juliet sister/family to Rachel Th...
by Kennedy/Thomas
Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:07 pm
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post
Replies: 16
Views: 28579

Re: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post

I forgot to mention the reason why I referred to all those girls as Mary and to the line from Agnes as Winnie(s)is because the story is that all those girls who liked to go to Winnipeg-the big city-were called Winnie by the Indians in the family. There is another story about if my memory serves me a...
by Kennedy/Thomas
Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:41 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post
Replies: 16
Views: 28579

Re: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post

When I said that John George had a sister in the last post on this topic I meant that John George himself might have been son to John George born in 1855 whether legal or illegitimately with his uncle or similar named Alex Kennedy Sr. taking over as 'head'(not in a tipi) in 1888 just before Maggie t...
by Kennedy/Thomas
Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:02 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post
Replies: 16
Views: 28579

Re: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post

I also think it's quite possible that Agnes Mayo nee Kennedy was the daughter of John George Kennedy's sister Margaret who may have went by Marry in the 1906 census for Saskatchewan. The dob's are close enough considering that there have been errors within a few years for other Kennedy's like on Ale...
by Kennedy/Thomas
Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:38 pm
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post
Replies: 16
Views: 28579

Re: Agnes Kennedy and Rachel Thomas re James/Jim Shand post

I am currently looking deeper into the identity of John George Kennedy and his ancestors. This has become the focus now for me. I think in general he lived a lifestyle on the fringes of white mainstream society. His father Alex was a wanderer and John George followed suit. Alex wrote a land claim le...
by Kennedy/Thomas
Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:00 pm
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: JOHN STEVENSON (1840-1932)
Replies: 24
Views: 36436

Re: JOHN STEVENSON (1840-1932)

I think that an obituary I found on Passages website published by the Winnipeg Free Press shows that there was likely a move toward being more British and changing or assigning surnames that sound more British for a period in Manitoba history that included the Red River Settlement. Textual records o...
by Kennedy/Thomas
Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:26 pm
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: JOHN STEVENSON (1840-1932)
Replies: 24
Views: 36436

Re: JOHN STEVENSON (1840-1932)

Sorry in the last post I did on John Stevenson it was Charles Simard and Margaret Kennedy who would have got introduced to each other for marriage by their respective fathers and not Charles Simard to Betsy as I put. Betsy was Charles's mother.
by Kennedy/Thomas
Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:57 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: JOHN STEVENSON (1840-1932)
Replies: 24
Views: 36436

Re: JOHN STEVENSON (1840-1932)

I know that some Stevenson's lived next door to the Kennedy's in the 1881 Census and some Stevenson's were next to some [Cochrane's for the 1901 census for Fisher River were Betsy Cochrane apparently got commutation in 1893(recorded as Elizabeth Betsy Seymour) on www.collectionscanada.gc.ca website]...