Resending as this message below never appeared on the list or archives.   Maureen Rawson [email protected] Kent Genealogy Website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/ ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Maureen Rawson <[email protected]> >To: Kent Rootsweb List <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:19:03 PM >Subject: William George KENNEDY's ashes > > >No relation to me but I saw this is the paper this week: > > > >A mysterious urn containing the ashes of a long-dead British Columbia man has been traced to the man’s granddaughter after it washed up on an Oregon beach. A teenaged boy found the battered, bronze-like urn, under a pier last month and took it to Astoria, Oregon funeral director Tom Preston. Using only the urn’s inscription, “ William George KENNEDY, Born 1870 – Died 1925”, Mr Preston traced the remains to Iris CLOSE, Kennedy’s granddaughter. A resident of Oliver, B.C., Mrs Close told the Nelson Star last week that she did not even know the remains were missing. Kennedy came to Canada from Canterbury, England in 1911 and opened a nursery in B.C. before becoming a hotel owner in Bellingham, Washington where he died. Larry Sherratt, who claims to be a distant relative, told a TV station he discovered the urn about 35 years ago while cleaning out a closet and had it buried at sea. >National Post (Canada), Wednesday April 11, 2012 > > >William G Kennedy, son of Patrick and Mary Ann, is listed in 1881 in Canterbury, aged 11 born at Canterbury. >He is still in Canterbury in 1891, and is married to Mary with 3 children by 1901 in Thannington.  (Married Sep Qtr 1894 to Mary Windle at Canterbury RD) > >  >Maureen Rawson >[email protected] > > >Kent Genealogy Website: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/ > >