GRACE YOUNG, wife of Captain Nicholas Kennedy. Little is known about Grace except that she was pregnant when she left Wexford in 1807 on one of the Kennedy windjammers bound for New Bedford but that she gave birth at sea and the boat was put in at first port for her safety and that of the newborn Nicholas Kennedy 1807. That port was Harbor Grace, Conception Bay Newfoundland. Grace gave birth to a second son John Kennedy baptized in Harbor Grace on October 10, 1809. They settled in Crocker's Cove with the Kennedy families already there and Nicholas 1807 would in 1831 marry Julia Kennedy born 1808 to Terrence Kennedy and Mary Clarke. I have no birth, marriage, or death records for Nicholas Kennedy and Grace Young Kennedy of Wexford. They had 2 sons bapt. in Harbor Grace; unknown if they had older children
II Nicholas Kennedy born at sea baptized Harbour Grace May 29, 1807-1881 married Julia Kennedy (1809-1892) in 1831 Harbor Grace, Newfoundland: She was born Crocker's Cove to Terence Kennedy and Mary Clarke
III Mary Kennedy (1833-?) married Thomas Forristall
IV See Descendants of Terence Kennedy and Mary Clarke-- Forristall Descendants of Bay de Verde and Boston, Massachusetts
III Grace Kennedy (1836 -1922) married Richard Hayden of Bay de Verde Captain of the "Release" storm of 1885
IV See Descendants of Terence Kennedy and Mary Clarke
III Captain John Kennedy (1839-1912) married Margaret Butler
IV See Descendants of Terence Kennedy and Mary Clarke
III Nicholas August 5, 1842 -1844 died in childhood buried Northwest Carbonear Cemetery, Newfoundland
III Captain Terrance Kennedy March 3, 1845-1937 married at St. Pat's RC Carbonear Mary Joy "Aunt Polly) -1845-1916 both died in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland.
IV See Descendants of Terence Kennedy and Mary Clarke
III Captain Nicholas Kennedy 1848 -1918 married Margaret Hamilton
IV See Descendants of Terence Kennedy and Mary Clarke
III William Henry Kennedy 1851- 1862 died youth Northwest Carbonear Cemetery, Newfoundland