Brief Life History of Reuben Judd
When Reuben Judd Kennedy was born on 1 December 1789, in New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Kennedy, was 36 and his mother, Jerusha Judd, was 25. He married Susannah Cascadden about 1819, in Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Malahide Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1842. He died on 6 March 1850, in Elgin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 60, and was buried in Seville Cemetery, Seville, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
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- Reuben J Kennedy, "Canada, Upper Canada Census, 1842"
- Reuben Judd Kennedy, "Find A Grave Index"
- Reuben Kennedy in entry for Lucas Kennedy and Elizabeth Johnson, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’ (from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’); or from the Scottish Gaelic Mac Cinnèidigh, consisting of mac ‘son’ with an equivalent name. Compare Canaday , Cannady , Cannedy , Kannady , and Kenedy .
History: Kennedy ancestral lands are found both in Ireland and in Scotland, where the family's medieval ancestral seat is sited on the Ayrshire coast, facing the Irish Sea. — The great-grandparents of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) came to North America as immigrants from Ireland in the 1840s. His paternal great-grandparents were Patrick Kennedy (1823–58), born in Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland, and Bridget Murphy, who was born probably in Owenduff, County Wexford, Ireland c. 1827; they came to Boston, MA, in 1849. His maternal great-grandparents were Thomas Fitzgerald (1823–85), who was born in Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland, and Rose Anna Cox, who was born probably in Tomregan or Kinawley, County Cavan, Ireland, c. 1835; they came to Boston, MA, in 1857. — An early Scottish Kennedy forebear of a quite different family was British colonial official Archibald Kennedy (1685–1763), the son of Alexander Kennedy of Craigoch, who emigrated to NY c. 1710.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Petition to the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada. 1925?
"The Petition of Reuben J. Kennedy of Malahide, Humbly sheweth-- that your Petitioner is a native of the Province of New Brunswick; that he was located by Colonel Talbot on a lot of two hundred acres …
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