Jane Hendry (Jeanie) Clark

   Cause of her death was Mitrial Regurgitation.

  General Notes:

Richard Braley notes:
Hugh Thomson Kennedy was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland on Nov 14, 1846. He was the son of Alexander Kennedy (1802-1876) and Agnes Shaw (1806-1862). The census of 1851 in Scotland shows that Hugh is the youngest of 7 children (Mary, Robert, Agnes, Alexander, Margaret, James, Hugh). Subsequent records show that this was an emigrating family with three going to Australia and Hugh to the United States. Ten years later, the 1861 census of Scotland shows that Hugh and his next older brother James were living with his sister Mary Thomson and her husband Thomas Thomson. They had children Alexander, Agnes S, Thomas, John, and Robert.
The 1871 census of Scotland shows that Hugh was married to Jane (Jeanie). They had married Dec 8, 1868. Jane Hendry Clark, born on Dec 10, 1842, may have been the daughter of John Clark and Catherine Reston, but that is not clear. Ten years later he was working as a railway clerk and they had three children: Alexander Shaw Kennedy, Catherine Robertson Kennedy, and John H. Kennedy.
The 1881 Scotland census shows that Hugh was a railway clerk and that all five were together at 31 Brown Place. US census records show that Hugh arrived in this country in 1881. US census records show that Catherine arrived in this country in 1883. Piecing together the story was complicated. Jeannie, Alex, Kate, and John arrived in Boston on the Phoenician on June 13, 1883. The family ultimately live at 8 Lorette St in West Roxbury. Hugh became a US citizen in 1887.
Jeanie died on Jan 23, 1894 from Mitrial Regurgitation.
There were two events in this family in 1895. On March 27, Hugh remarried, marrying Margaret Y. Carney of Boston. Both were from Scotland. It was the second marriage for both. They had at least two children. Their first child, Agnes Shaw Kennedy, was born on March 18, 1896. She died on April 6, 1900 from diphtheria. Hugh Thomson Kennedy Jr was born August 20, 1898. He was living at home on Lorette St as of the 1920 census. Margaret brought two children to the second marriage from the first: John and Andrew.
The second event in 1895 was the marriage of Alexander Shaw Kennedy to Catherine McDonald on August 31, 1895. She lived in Somerville and the marriage was there. Their oldest child was James A., born on Jan 3, 1896, not quite 3 months before Agnes. He was Hugh Thomson Kennedy Sr's first grandchild. The second child, Jeanie Blanche, was born on April 2, 1898, 4 ½ months before Hugh Thomson Jr. After the birth of James, they moved to River Street in Hyde Park before moving to Quincy. The youngest child, John Hugh was born in Quincy on Jan 6, 1907. Alexander died Nov 5, 1950.
John H. Kennedy the youngest child of Hugh and Jeanie died in Boston on Nov 13, 1902 at age 24. The cause of death was meningitis. He was not married.
The middle child was Catherine (Kate) Robertson Kennedy. The 1900 census shows her both living on Lorette St as well as working for Clara Wentworth, a dressmaker who lived nearby. When she married Frank S. Braley on July 18, 1900 her occupation was shown as dressmaker. This was his second marriage and her first. They had five children: Savory Charles, Jan 1, 1902; John Kennedy, April 11, 1904; Jane (Jean), March 14, 1907; Frank Alexander, Oct 2, 1908; and Hugh Thomson, Oct 7, 1911.
Hugh Thomson Kennedy died March 3, 1924 at age 76.

Jane married Hugh Thomson Kennedy, son of Alexander Kennedy and Agnes Shaw, on 8 Dec 1868 in Scotland UK.²¹¹ (Hugh Thomson Kennedy was born on 14 Nov 1846 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire Scotland ²¹¹ and died on 3 Mar 1924 in West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts USA.)