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Name: KENNEDY, Mary Jane, Mrs
Nee: Bryars
Birth Date: 31 July 1866 Dungannon, Tyrone
Death Date: 26 Dec 1935 Kabete
First Date: 1929
Last Date: 1935
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Dungannon 29 July 1890 Rev. Gilbert Alexander Kennedy, of Cambusnethan, Scotland (3 Aug 1861 Gortnaglush-8 Dec 1916 Cambusnethan)
Children: Margaret Adelaide (Lyas) (1891 Aghadowey-1960 Weymouth); Florence Isabella (31 May 1892 Ballybritain, Aghadowey-13 June 1909 Cambusnethan); Gilbert McClelland (5 Mar 1895 Aghadowey-15 June 1915 Festubert, France); Norman Robert (12 Feb 1898 Ireland); Moira Evelyn (9 Sep 1902-20 Nov 1909 Cambusnethan); Eileen Maud (Danks) (5 July 1905 Cambusnethan)
Book Reference: Web, Barnes
General Information:
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Mary Kennedy, British, age 67, died 26/12/35. Inscription: in / affectionate remembrance / of / Mary Kennedy / wife of the late Rev G A Kennedy / of Cambusnethan, Scotland / who died at Kabete / 26th Dec 1935 / "in his keeping we are safe, and they"
Web: Gilbert McClelland Kennedy was a student of the University of Glasgow and enrolled in summer courses in 1914 in the Medical faculty, studying Theoretical and Practical Botany and Physics. Gilbert was the eldest son of the Reverend Gilbert Kennedy (1861-1916), parish minister of Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, and Mary Jane Kennedy (née Bryars) (1866-1935). He was born in the Manse of Aghadowey, County Derry, Ireland, on the 5th March 1895, where his father was Minister at that time. He enlisted on the outbreak of war and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 15th November 1914. He served in the 6th Battalion alongside other University of Glasgow men 2nd Lieutenant John Barclay Wilson and Lieutenant Charles Macdonald. All three died in France on the 15th June 1915.
Belfast Newsletter 1 July 1890 for marriage
Gilbert Alexander Kennedy was b. at Gortnaglush, Co. Tyrone, ed. at Queen's Univ. Belfast and Univ of Edin. Minister at Carland, Ireland 1888; trans to Aghadowey 1890, 1900 to Cambusnethan in Scotland, d. 8 Dec 1916 of influenza. His widow moved to Kenya in 1929 with her dau Eileen Maud and son-in-law William Barr Clelland Danks BS, MRCVS.