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From: "craig cook" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Ellen Mary Kennedy
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:18:38 +1100
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The name Harris has provoked a memory that there was a Mgt Harris living
here in the Cape Clear/Pitfield area and she had a daughter too. Something
always didnt match with other names about as I remember There are burials
in the Cape Clear Cem for her and I think an Abel HArris and a small child.
Maybe that also throws some more search lines out.
Craig Cook

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenny Fawcett" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Ellen Mary Kennedy


> Joan
> I have a Harris/Kennedy family in Geelong who might perhaps fit.
> It is a long story, but briefly Ellen Kennedy (nee McGrath) came to
Tasmania
> in 1819 as a convict. She married Henry Harris (convict) in 1825 and they
> had several children (we have only been able to identify two). Henry and
> Ellen seperated: one daughter (Margaret Harris) married George Willis and
> came to Port Fairy. Ellen Harris/Kennedy then came to Port Fairy and then
> Geelong. IN 1871 when she died at Geelong she said that oe of her
> grandchildren was in an orphanage, but I have never been able to find out
> which one.
> Ellen and her granddaughter were fond of putting different names on the
> certificates at will. Her granddaughter had an illgitmate child that we
know
> of...but I don;t know if there is more.
> best wishes
> Jenny Fawcett
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joan Waugh" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 3:54 PM
> Subject: [GEELONG] Ellen Mary Kennedy
>
>
> >
> >
> > Hello Listers,
> >
> > My grandmother Ellen Mary KENNEDY, stated at her children's births, that
> she
> > was born in Geelong. As she had never mentioned any family member, we
> > suspect she may have been in an orphanage. St. Catherine's Orphanage
had
> an
> > Ellen Kennedy in the right time frame, but had no parents' names for the
> > girl. We don't know her parents' names either. It was not shown on her
> > marriage or death certificates.
> >
> > Has anyone got a Kennedy in their family tree who had a daughter in an
> > orphanage. We think her birth was about 1865-6 but have no other
> > information.
> >
> > Thanking you in advance.
> >
> > Joan from Melbourne
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdcem.htm
> >
>


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