This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KENNEDY /McDONNELL /ALD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/1411 Message Board Post: Searching for the family of Alexander KENNEDY and Christy McDONNELL who emigrated ca 1850 to Canada. Their son Donald Alexander Kennedy was born in 1839 Scotland, and is known to have emigrated in 1850 to apprentice with an uncle, who had previously emigrated, as an architect of mills. I do not know if the uncle was Kennedy or McDonnell. I am assuming DAK's family travelled with him, but I do not know their locations in either Scotland or Canada. They were a family of Lumbermen/Scalers. They were Highland Catholic.... This family found in the 1841 Census in Kilmonivaig (seen below) is the closest match I have found to date, matching Donald Alexander's date of birth and showing the same names for his parents, aunt and siblings as are known living in Canada and later, after 1870, in USA/Wisconsin. Is there any way to trace this family prior to the 1841 Census in Scotland, or in the 1851 Census to see if they are still in Scotland then, or gone? Or where they may have located on arrival in Canada? The first sighting of Donald Alexander Kennedy in Canada occurs in Huron County Ontario in 1865 when he stands as witness to a marriage: groom residence birth place parents bride residence birthplace parents witness 1 -name witness 1 -res witness 2 - name witness 2 - res date page part Archibald, William, 24 Tuckersmith Scotland Thomas & Mary (Leon)McLean, Mary, 18 Tuckersmith Canada Robert & Sarah (Shaw) D.A. Kennedy Tuckersmith John McLean Tuckersmith 24-Jun-65 169 a The following year DA KENNEDY marries Margaret CHARTERS of Egmondville/Tuckersmith in Stratford Perth County Ontario on 25 May 1866. Two years later they immigrate to USA.... This Kennedy Family is closely intertwined with McDonnell/alds in both Canada and USA. Any help or suggestion would be gratefullly appreciated in this search. JAL 1841 CENSUS Piece: SCT1841/99 Place: Kilmonivaig-Inverness-shire Enumeration District: 22 Civil Parish: Kilmonivaig Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: - Folio: 22 Page: 3 Address: Ardochy Surname First name(s) Sex Age Occupation Where Born KENNEDY Alexr M 80 Cottar Inverness-shire KENNEDY Alexr M 45 Inverness-shire KENNEDY Christy F 30 Inverness-shire KENNEDY Angus M 7 Inverness-shire KENNEDY Julia F 4 Inverness-shire KENNEDY Donald M 2 Inverness-shire KENNEDY Mary F 30 Inverness-shire KENNEDY Anne F 20 Female Servant Inverness-shire RANKIN Duncan M 40 Outside Census County (1841)