Margaret Kennedy

   Cause of her death was Heart failure.

  Research Notes:

source: Carolyn Darby who notes:
Margaret Kennedy (sister to Carolyn Darby's great grandfather) who immigrated to Australia in January (I think it was) 1864 on 'Ida' (the microfilm of the shipping list for the vessel "Ida" is on Reel 2482, [4/4986]. She was:Age: 22
Profession: Milliner
Place of Birth/Residence: Hamilton, Lanark, Scotland
Parents: Alexander, Agnes, Father living Hamilton--probably indicates that mother had died before they sailed.
Religion: Protestant
Read/Write: Both
Relatives in Colony: Agnes and an indecipherable last name that looks like Alorn or Cilour or Alvin, (Sister).

Margaret was accompanied on 'Ida' by her younger brother James Kennedy (Carolyn Darby great grandfather) who was:Age: 20
Profession: looked like "Non" Turner but could be Iron Turner (note Marriage Transcript says Engineer)
Place of Birth/Residence: Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland (a bit south-east of Glasgow) (Not Isle of Tyree as I thought)
Parents: Alexander, Agnes (crossed out because she must have died before 1864died?), living in Hamilton
Religion: Presbyterian
Read/Write: Both
Relatives in Colony: Sister Agnes, 25 Stanley Lane and looked like Brown Street? (there is a Stanley Lane and a Crown Lane in Darlinghurst)
Body and Mental Health: Good
Complaints about trip: None

Margaret Kennedy (d.17.2.1912) and John Plant Wright (d.19.3.1912) married:
M: 2221/1891 PRATTEN HERBERT E WRIGHT AGNES ASHFIELD
John Plant Wright was a shoe manufacturer who immigrated maybe from Bristol in 1850s (Carolyn Darby hasn't researched; gathered from family hearsay). They started married life at Ashfield but moved to the house 'Bowercliff', Bower Street, South Steyne (Manly)-from the marriage registrations (below) of their daughters it looks as if the move might have taken place about 1904. The house stood where the large reddish-brick apartment block 'Borambil' (build by a Mr. Matchett about 1930) now stands. Family legend is that 'Auntie Wright', as my father called her, used to ring a bell to warn of sharks when she spied them from the large verandah.

I believe Margaret and John Plant they had the following children:
B: 881/1867 WRIGHT AGNES, Parents: JOHN P & MARGARET, SYDNEY
M: 2221/1891 PRATTEN HERBERT E to WRIGHT AGNES, ASHFIELD

B: 1126/1869 WRIGHT GEORGE, Parents: JOHN P & MARGARET, SYDNEY. (George given as Company Manager on JP's Will.)

B: 5442/1873 WRIGHT JOHN (also Plant in JP Snr's Will), Parents: JOHN PLANT & MARGARET, ST GEORGE
D: 1916

B: 5668/1874 WRIGHT JULIA, Parents: JOHN PLANT & MARGARET, ST GEORGE
M:3363/1899 SHELLEY GEORGE V to WRIGHT JULIA, GLEBE

B:6125/1876 WRIGHT ALICE, Parents: JOHN & MARGARET, ST GEORGE
M: 4654/1906 BROWN GEORGE M(ansfield?) D to WRIGHT ALICE, MANLY (JP's Will does not have the name George, just 'Mansfield Brown'.)

B: 7920/1880 WRIGHT ETHEL MARY, Parents: JOHN PLANT MARGARET, ST GEORGE
M: 5536/1903 PASSAU REGINALD B to WRIGHT ETHEL M, ASHFIELD
John Paul Wright's Will dated 11 December 1911 (about three months before he died) states that Ethel (and Reg I suppose) were living in a house on the corner of Bower and Cliff Streets that her father bequeathed to her for life.

B: 4972/1881 WRIGHT ARTHUR H(enry in JP's Will), Parents: JOHN P & MARGARET, CANTERBURY. (Arthur given as architect on JP's Will.)

M:1805/1907 BLUNDELL SYDNEY E WRIGHT ELSIE A, MANLY. (Have not found registration of Elsie's birth registration but she is in JP's Will. Emailer well remembers the issue of Elsie, Bevan Blundell and at least one of his issue, Jane.)

The only children of Margaret and John Paul Wright I have researched is Agnes, married Herbert E(dward) Pratten (Ashfield alderman,Federal MP for Martin (renamed Ku-ring-gai), died addressing his constituents in Turramurra Masonic Temple on his 63rd birthday, 7 May 1928):
2221/1891 PRATTEN HERBERT E to WRIGHT AGNES, ASHFIELD (at the Brunswick Parade, Ashfield home of John Plant and Margaret
Their children were:
Bert (Herbert G(raham)) b. #4629/1892 (22/4/1892), reg. Ashfield, who married Doris M Clarke, #17500/1920, reg. Ashfield and had Christopher, Geoff and Ted Maisy, (Agnes M(ay)) b. #4825/1893, reg. Ashfield.
Margaret (Ethel M(argaret)) b. # 13372/1897 reg. Leichhardt, who married Arthur J Christian, # 7179/1919,reg. Sydney and had Peg,
Jack (John E(dmond)) b. #6183/1902, reg. Petersham, who married Zara J Richards, #835/1931, reg. Yass and had Tony, Mary, Jane or is it MaryJane and Jeremy,
Enid (Grace E(nid)) b. # 18936/1903, reg. Ashfield, who married Keith L H Kirkland, # 4297/1931, reg. Sydney (engaged 3/1/1936???) and had three children-Gillian, Janet and Mary. Enid went to school with and was bridesmaid to Willa Matchett, the daughter of the guy who must have demolished John Plant and Margaret Wrights house 'Bowercliff' to build the 'Borambil' flats.

Richard Braley notes:
Hugh Thomson Kennedy was the youngest son of Alexander and Agnes Shaw Kennedy. He came to the United States in 1881, with his wife and family following two years later. His oldest sister was Agnes Shaw Kennedy, who may have gone from Scotland to Australia as early as 1855. A younger sister, Margaret Kennedy and her brother James went to Australia around 1864 as noted in your narrative.

Carolyn Darby notes:
What I learned through your contact with Robyn is very interesting: that my father's (Keith PATrick Symes) mother's father had a brother Hugh who emigrated to North America somewhere (I'm not sure if I was told where). My grandmother (Mary Margaret Symes, nee Kennedy, daughter of James who immigrated to Australia with his sister Margaret, who married John Plant Wright) on Ida in 1864, arriving January) died at age 60 in December 1930, so as I was born in January 1940 I did not know her. When I first started tracing family in 2006 I discovered from the shipping logs that James, an "iron turner" (later described as an engineer) and his older sister Margaret, a milliner, already had a sister Agnes living in Sydney but I still can't decipher the writing of her last name (I guess she was married); it could be Alvin, Alcorn, Cilour. I don't suppose you have a clue? The log entry gave her address as cnr of Stanley and what looked like Brown St, but was probably Crown St. I have looked in the Sands' directory around 1864 but couldn't find any likely names.
I learned a lot more about the Wright family, but very little about Margaret herself, a few years ago from the records held by the 90-year-old Gdaughter, who has since died, of the eldest son of James and Ann, nee Lamont/d (native of Tiree, Scotland). I have since been told by the Gson of Agnes Pratten, eldest daughter of Margaret and John Plant Wright, that John Plant was also on the Ida. The story is that he was in the leather business and travelled out with a few others in the same trade. They all started separate shoe manufacturing businesses. Seems amazing that they each had customers enough in a Sydney population of 56,000! But they must have done well to live in a big house in a then fashionable suburb, Ashfield, then built a big one in a prominent position overlooking Manly beach above the surf club (my father said that Margaret used to ring a bell if she saw a shark from the verandah. They only lived there for about seven years because they died within two months of one another (Margaret first) in 1912. But JPW had found time to build a house for each of his daughters and also his namesake John Plant, the youngest of nine (I think without checking my records) children close by in Manly. Agnes, who married Herbert Pratten, a soon to become politician, lived in the Ashfield house. There is a Barnett Family (haven't tried to find out where they fit) Tree on Ancestry that says of Margaret: "Stayed in her room a lot. Wardrobe drinker." After all those kids, I don't wonder! but she must have gone out on the verandah to look for sharks, because that is all Dad remembered about her-he would have been only nine when she died. I know a lot more about the Wright/Pratten family, met offspring who aren't all that interested in knowing we are related-think there must have been a family split between the step brothers or their families, though it was Herbert who came to Australia first and Frederick followed and joined Herbert in his original venture-a cordial cum jam business. They were also into tin in New Guinea and then printing was developed mainly by Fred I think while Herbert went into Federal parliament. He died at 63 in 1928 speaking to a group of women constituents at the Masonic Hall, Turramurra, the suburb next to where I grew up and two away from where I live now. I think you might know all that because I just saw an unidentified-author entry on the Internet that looks like what I wrote to Robyn.

  Noted events in her life were:

• connection. Carolyn Darby 's connection to Robert is as follows:

Carolyn Symes (1940) married ? Darby
Her father was Keith Symes (1903)
His father was Robert Symes (c1870) who married Mary Kennedy (1872)
Her father was James Kennedy (1844)
His father was Alexander Kennedy (c1810) & he also had Margaret Kennedy (c1842) who married John Plant Wright (c1850)
They had Ethel Wright (1883) who married Reginald Passau (1879)
His father was Frederick Passau (1842)
His father was Samuel Passau who married Matilda Dawes (1818)
Her father was Aaron Daw (1779) & he also had Edward Dawes (1813)
He had James Dawes (1843)
He had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (192)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Margaret married John Plant Wright on 19 May 1866 in Sydney, NSW Australia.²¹⁰ (John Plant Wright was born on 9 Feb 1842 in Castle Donington, Leicestershire England,²¹⁰ died on 13 Mar 1912 in Bowercliff, Manly, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried on 19 Mar 1912 in Manly Cemetery, Sydney, NSW Australia.)