Michael Kennedy	Try Again	1848073
Edward Kennedy	Rebecca	1848119	St. John's
James Kennedy	Rebecca	1848119	St. John's
Nicholas P. Kennedy 1807-1881	Herald	1848096	St. John's Nfld.	Crocker's Cove, Carbonear Newfoundland
C. Kennedy	Empress	1851060
Thomas Kennedy	Catherine	1851096
Thomas Kennedy	Iris	1853051
Edward Kennedy	Gazelle	1855022
E. Kennedy	Flirt	1855042
Patrick Kennedy	Annie	1856063
Robert Kennedy	Annie	1856063
John Kennedy	BILLOW	1857	Harbour Maine, Newfoundland	Harbour Maine	Harbour Maine
James Kennedy	Lovely Mary	1859036
E. Kennedy	Gazelle	1861017
Kennedy	Superior	1867
Patrick Kennedy	Anastasia	1873
W.J. Kennedy	Maggie U	1876082
Kennedy	Ellie D	1878100
John Kennedy	Vanguard	1884
Lawrence Kennedy	Lavina	1885092
John Kennedy	Bounty	1888		Salmon Cove, Carbonear Newfoundland	Crocker's Cove, Newfoundland
William Kennedy	John Prince	1891
William Kennedy		1892
Terrance Kennedy 1845-1935	Flying Mist	1896	St. John's, Newfoundland	Carbonear, Newfoundland	Crocker's Cove, Newfoundland
John Kennedy 1839-1912	Ocean Gem	1896	St. John's, Newfoundland	Carbonear, Newfoundland	Crocker's Cove, Newfoundland
Cornelius Kennedy	Eliza	1898	St. John's, Newfoundland	Trespassey, Newfoundland	Trespassey, Newfoundland
Wm. R Kennedy	Pioneer	1904
Patrick Kennedy	Vanguard	1906
Kennedy	Lucille	1907		Mobile, NL

W (Walter) Kennedy	Hispanola Campanula	1907		Holyrood, NL	Holyrood, NL
David Kennedy	Ethie	1908
William R. Kennedy	Bobs Luetta Jessie L. Smith Effie Morrissey SS Nascopie SS Viking	1904 1907 1909 1926 1928 1931	St. John's, NL	St. John's, NL.	Carbonear, NL
Nicholas J. Kennedy (son of Nich.1848)	Ich Dien SS Petrel SS Prospero Terra Nova	1911 1916 1918	St. John's, NL	St. John's, NL	Crocker's Cove, Carbonear, NL
Walter Kennedy	Paul Fernand	1911		Holyrood, NL	Holyrood,NL
Wm. R. Kennedy (son of Nich.1848)	M.S. Ayre	1912
(David) Kennedy	Stella K	1913
William J. Kennedy (son of Terence 1845)		1890-1916		Boston, Massachusetts Panama Canal Pilot Seattle-Alaska Trade 1930	Carbonear, NL
John W. Kennedy	Hilda Maude	1921

     This is a work in progress and if you see a Captain KENNEDY here that  you may be related to please make an

inquiry so that I can find out further details on the vessel registered to Captain KENNEDY or perhaps where  he

was born or resided.  I believe those Captain Kennedys of Crocker's Cove and Carbonear to all be the ancestors of my

grandmother.   Both my ggggf Captain Nicholas and his wife Julia (married 1831) were both Kennedys and as the

story goes his line was from Wexford and his father put in at Harbor Grace after he was born at sea in 1807 en route

to New Bedford, Massachusetts (they had heard the fishing in the States was good) and Julia's KENNEDY line had

already been in Crocker's Cove, Newfoundland since before 1755.  

      The union of Nicholas and Julia  was not the only Kennedy to Kennedy marriage in Carbonear. During the same

decade, a William Kennedy married an Ellen Kennedy (1820), a John Kennedy married a Mary Kennedy (1828) and a

Terence Kennedy married a Jane (Kenny/Kennedy) in 1818.  It is my own supposition that the Kennedy family which

arrived from Wexford, Ireland in 1807 married into the Crocker's Cove line through more than one union in an effort to

secure land and fishing premises.  All marriages were sanctioned by the Roman Catholic church in Harbor Grace and no

record of Consanguinity has been found to indicate a blood relation between the two families.  I believe that all of the

Captain Kennedys from Carbonear in the above Index are related thru one Kennedy line or the other and ultimately

trace through blood or marriage to the Terence Kennedy whose Crocker's Cove house was razed in 1755 after having

mass said publicly and being married by a Catholic priest. I am less certain of the connection between Crocker's Cove/

Carbonear  Kennedys and the Kennedys of Harbor Maine/Holyrood (Avondale).  Alhough any of the Kennedy to Kennedy

marriages could represent the joining of  Kennedy families between Carbonear and the Avondale area as they all had early

connections as parishioners of the RC Chapel of Harbor Grace.  Information on the earliest Captain Kennedys has been

extracted from the Keith Matthews Name Files of the Maritime History Archives at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

     I have no doubt that there were more Kennedy Master Mariners in Newfoundland than are listed here and that each

Captain Kennedy had Kennedy crew aboard his vessel.  Those Captain Kennedys last listed, William J. and Nicholas J.

Kennedy were brothers and first cousins to my great grandfather John Kennedy.  John's father was Skipper Terrence of the

Flying Mist 1896 and I suspect that vessel as the one on which he may have sailed 4 of his sons to Boston.  Skipper

Terrence's brothers were Captain Nicholas (father of the above Capt.WJK and Capt NJK) and Captain John Kennedy

(of the Bounty and who had sons Nich, WJ, and Stan).  They all worked the Labrador fishery during the second half

of the 19th century but as this livelihood began to wane most of the family was moving from Carbonear to St. John's,

Canada, and also the US.  They were considered the last of Carbonear's Great Sea Captains.  The last of 4 generations

of  Captains (at least that I know for certain) but I suspect their seafaring tradition goes back for many more generations

and spans more than the three hundred years recorded here.    They have thousands of descendants.  Many of whom I feel

certain are most at home when nearest to sea.

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