[Ancestor] Kennedy

---

---

Husband [Ancestor] Kennedy

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

---

• Ancestry Information: from Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905).
To read about the ancestors of this Kennedy family, click here.

---

---

Wife

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

Children

---

1 M Rev. Thomas Kennedy ¹

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

---

General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Kennedy

---

The name of "Kennedy" is an ancient and honorable Scotch one. Its meaning is the head of a sept or clan. The family descend from the ancient Earls of Carrick, in Ayrshire, and changed the name from Carrick to Kennedy in the fourteenth century. The chief was Kennedy of Dunewe, afterwards Earl of Cassilis (later Marquis of Ailsa). The power of this great house in the shires of Ayr and Galloway was set forth in a popular rhyme,
"By Wigton and the town of Ayre,
Port Patrick and the Cruwes O'Cree,
Nae man need think to bide there
Unless he court wi' Kennedie."
Robert and William Kennedy, brothers, who emigrated from Ireland and settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1730, were the descendants of Col. Gilbert Kennedy, who was with Cromwell at the battle of Marston Moor. John Kennedy, brother to Col. Gilbert, was the sixth Earl of Cassilis. Robert and William, the emigrants above named, were either sons or grandsons of the Rev. Thomas Kennedy, eldest son of Col. Gilbert, who accompanied as chaplain Gen. Monroe, who came to Ireland with his army in 1642. [HLC 1883, 1058]

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 40.