James Price KENNEDY
Date of Birth:
11 Feb 1855
Date of Death:
28 Dec 1914
James was born in Ireland.
He came to NZ with his parents & brother around 1866.
He married (in 1887 at Christchurch) a widow Mary Sibbald (nee McIntosh). She was born at Edinburgh in c 1846.
She married Thomas Sibbald in 1868 in Scotland.
There does not appear to have been any children from either marriage.
James started out as a civil servant around 1880 in Wellington. He was briefly in Christchurch before becoming a shorthand writer back in Wellington. By 1896 he was a medical student in Dunedin. There is a gap in his history, however he is in Levin as a medical practioner from at least 1905 to 1914. He then left for London where he died that same year. It is not known (at this stage) what happened to Mary.
Relatives mentioned in profile:
James Price Kennedy, William Fleming Kennedy, Catherine Jane Fitzgerald, Mary Brown McIntosh, James McIntosh, Elizabeth Brown, Thomas Byers Sibbald.