Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
Recently I discovered that my great great grandfather THOMAS KENNEDY b abt 1825-30 prob Windsor, Hants Co Nova Scotia Canada, was the son of JOHN KENNEDY b abt 1800 Ireland and ELIZABETH BETSEY RINES b abt 1800, Maitland, Hants Co, Nova Scotia Canada. They were married about 1818 in probably Maitland.
According to an 1887 letter by HENRY J RINES b 1826 Nova Scotia died 1871 Portland Cumberland Co ME, JOHN KENNEDY & his family lived at Windsor NS and then moved to Lubec, Washington Co ME, where John Kennedy died. I have found him there 1840 US census Lubec, Washington Co ME, with his eldest son JEREMIAH KENNEDY b abt 1818 prob Windsor NS.
JOHN KENNEDY's widow, my ggg grandmother ELIZABETH RINES KENNEDY, moved with some of her children, including my gg grandfather THOMAS KENNEDY, to Portland, ME by 1850. She is in census there 1850-1870.
I have copies of the original 1887 document, as well as a transcription by Kathy Waters, the researcher who sent them to me.
My ggg grandmother ELIZABETH BETSEY (RINES) KENNEDY b 1800 Maitland NS was the daughter of JOHN RINES Jr b 1766 and ELIZABETH McDONALD; and the grandaughter of JOHN RINES b 1730s-40s & ELIZABETH TOAL. I am uncertain at this time if these two JOHNs were born Nova Scotia or in Massachusetts.
I have just begun to research my family in Nova Scotia. The 1887 letter does, however, give a full list of the children of all these couples and names most of their spouses.
Would be interested in comparing notes with anyone researching these families in Hants Co Nova Scotia
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
Hello: I am descended from John Rines and Elizabeth Toal also. Their son Joseph Rines (b 22 March 1762, Kennetcook, Hants County, NS and d 1862 Kennetcook)married Mary Minas Corney. She was born 12 Jan 1764. I am descended through their daughters Hannah Rines and Margaret Elizabeth Rines. Hannah was born 14 Nov 1785 in Upper Kennetcook, Hants, NS and married John Singer (b 22 Oct 1779 d 1832). Margaret Elizabeth Rines was born 5 Apr 1800 in Upper Kennetcook, Hants, NS and died 1890 in Georgefield, Hants, NS. She married George Frederick Miller (b 9 Aug 1796 d 3 Dec 1878). I am afraid I don't have sources yet, most of this info came from my aunt who researched the family over the last 30 years but didn't cite her sources. I would be glad to share anything you feel would fill in your research. My email address is parkerpratt@gmail.com
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
Not sure if it's the same John Rines, but the John Rines found here: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rines-3 seems to potentially match up with the John Rines b 1730s-40s you mention above. He was born in Massachusetts, according to the guy who's put together the link above, and died in Maitland, NS, which is about a half hour drive from Kennetcook.
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
That site has it as Rainey/Rainy and that family has nothing to do with my Rains/Rines family from Massachusetts and England. Orginal John Ranes came to Cornhill, Truro, Barnstable, Ma in 1730 with John Jr being born in there. He was the 1st settler in Maitland, Hants co., NS and married Elizabeth Toal and their son #7 John Rines b 1766 married my Elizabeth MacDonald d/o Patrick MacDonald (b in Scotland lived in Ireland) m Elizabeth McLean. Notes for John Rines in the early history of Central Hants co., Douglas Township Book 1784-1873 Vol 25, 25a PANS and also in the Douglas/Rawdon, NS 2 Loyalist townships. Rines John and Joseph pg 519-520 and MacDonald, Patrick pg 359 Cliff Rines and I both did a lot of searching on this family of Ranes/Rines with his the brother (Joseph), of my John. His Joseph married Minnie Corney abt 1784 in Douglas, Hants co., NS My John Rines and Elizabeth MacDonald had a daughter Mary Elizabeth b 1799 who married a John Kennedy in 1818 in Maitland and settled in Windsor, NS and then they moved to Lubec, Maine before 1840. Dot
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
Hi Dot, Thanks for your info! I'm trying to update my tree on wikitree.com, and have used some of the information in this thread to add to it. So what I see from this page ( http://www.rines.net/genealogy/gedcom02/f_3.htm#3 ), and what I have pieced together is that the original John Ranes/Rines born approx. 1720 in Ireland. His son, John Rines, was born in 1740 in the Corn Hill area of Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, and died in Maitland, NS at the age of approximately 102(!). He married Elizabeth Tole/Toal in Onslow, NS in 1759.
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
Hi Dot,
Thanks for your info! I'm trying to update my tree on wikitree.com, and have used some of the information in this thread to add to it.
So what I see from this page (rinesdotnet), and what I have pieced together is that the original John Ranes/Rines born approx. 1720 in Ireland. His son, John Rines, was born in 1740 in the Corn Hill area of Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, and died in Maitland, NS at the age of approximately 102(!). He married Elizabeth Tole/Toal in Onslow, NS in 1759.
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
If anyone is interested I have the Original John Ranes/Rines as being born in England and I have his parents. From the Book Rawdon and Douglas 2 Loyalist townships there is some info on a William Rainey!!!! Dot
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
I am a descendant, and I have this book. JOHN RANES/RINES is listed on p 519-520. the book states he was from in Cornhill, Massachusetts. There is nothing indicated in the book about who his parents were.
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Re: Kennedy & Rines Family Windsor & Maitland, Hants Co Nova Scotia >>Portland Maine
Hi Betty Elizabeth Betsey Rines was born April 29, 1799. Her mother is my ancestor. Dot
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