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Charles William McKenna[1]
1869 - 1951 (82 years)
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Name Charles William McKenna [2, 3] Birth 13 Jan 1869 DeSable, Prince Edward Island, Canada 
[2, 3] Christening 26 Jan 1869 St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada Gender Male Arrival 1886 Emigrated from PEI to the United States in 1886. Later settled in Manchester in 1906. Death 07 Feb 1951 Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA Burial 10 Feb 1951 St. Joseph's Cemetery, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA Person ID P1528 The McIver Family Tree Last Modified 30 May 2021
Father Francis McKenna, b. 1828, Monaghan, Ireland d. 1892, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 64 years) Mother Anne McKeever (McIver), b. 1834, Monaghan, Ireland d. 28 Dec 1876, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 42 years) Marriage 15 Feb 1856 Prince Edward Island, Canada Family ID F325 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Bertha Nichels Marshall, b. 01 Oct 1868, Clarence, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 04 Apr 1943, Deland, Volusia, Florida, USA (Age 74 years) Marriage 29 Nov 1890 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [2] Children 1. Laura Emma McKenna, b. 30 Jul 1891, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. Oct 1978, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA (Age 87 years)2. Joseph Warren McKenna, b. 25 Jul 1893, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 18 Mar 1896, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 2 years)+ 3. Mary Ann McKenna, b. 07 Jul 1895, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 May 1987, Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 91 years)4. Bertha Adria McKenna, b. 08 Dec 1896, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 23 Nov 1968, Auburn, New Hampshire, USA (Age 71 years)5. Harold Augustus McKenna, b. 29 Nov 1898, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 31 Mar 1961, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA (Age 62 years)6. Esther Frances McKenna, b. 25 Mar 1900, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 May 1902, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 2 years)7. Edith Veronica McKenna, b. 1 Jun 1901, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 May 1902, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 8. Charles Marshall McKenna, b. 23 Feb 1904, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 25 May 1986, Norwich, Windsor, Vermont, USA (Age 82 years)+ 9. Helen Margaret McKenna, b. 26 May 1905, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1978, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA (Age 72 years)+ 10. Kathleen Virginia McKenna, b. 10 May 1908, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA d. 23 Feb 1990, Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 81 years)11. Pauline Theresa McKenna, b. 31 Jul 1909, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA d. 23 Nov 1968, Auburn, New Hampshire, USA (Age 59 years)Family ID F327 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 9 May 2021
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Photos 
Photo - Charles and Bertha McKenna with their children
Farmily portrait circa 1911: Children left to right: Helen, Harold, Pauline, Mary, Kathleen, Charles, Bertha, Laura
Photo - Charles and Bertha McKenna with their family
The following order is not confirmed, but is best guess:
Back row: Pauline, Charles, Kathleen, Helen, Harold, Bertha
Middle: Charles, Bertha
Front: Laura, Mary
Photo - Charles William McKenna Photo - Charles William McKenna 
Photo - Charles William McKenna
Documents 
Baptismal Record - Charles William McKenna
Baptized on January 26, 1869 by Father Patrick Doyle at St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada.Marriage Record - Charles William McKenna and Bertha Marshall
Married on November 29, 1890 by Patrick Strain, Clergyman, in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.Marriage Record - Charles and Bertha McKenna
Copy of actual Marriage Certificate
Newspaper Article - Charles and Bertha McKenna
Article published in an unknown newspaper, announcing the 50th wedding anniversary of Charles William McKenna and Bertha Marshall. Published around November 1940.
Death Record - Charles William McKenna
Obituary (clipping from unknown newspaper)Census - 1881 Census of Canada - Lot 26, Prince Edward Island, Canada 
Census - 1900 US Census - Lynn City, Essex, Massachusetts 
Census - 1910 US Census - Manchester, New Hampshire 
Census - 1920 US Census - Manchester, New Hampshire, USA 
Census - 1930 US Census - De Land, Florida Census - 1940 US Census - Glenwood, Florida 
Document - Manchester Directory, 1917
Charles was running the Wet Wash Laundry. Bertha Adria was a student, still living at home.
Document - McKenna family trip to Cuba (Charles and Bertha, with daughters, Laura and Bertha)
Passenger list, sailing on the SS Florida from Havana, Cuba on December 29, 1938, arriving in Miami, Florida on December 30, 1938.
Death Record - Charles William McKenna
State of New Hampshire, Certificate of Death
Histories 
Document - McKenna family history
Family history written by Laura McKenna, that was found in an envelope in a desk drawer following her death, which documents the early years with her siblings, and life on her own until 1919.
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Notes - Charles William McKenna was born on January 13, 1869 in DeSable, PEI, and was baptized at St. Malachy’s Church in Kinkora by Father P. Doyle. He was the fourth of ten children born to Anne McKeever and Francis McKenna. Charles was seven years old when his mother died. Five years later, he was living in Newton (his mother’s home community, and just across the fields from where she was raised), with his mother’s sister and brother, Susan and Peter McKeever.
Charles emigrated to the United States in 1886, and he married Bertha Marshall from Clarence, Nova Scotia, on November 29, 1890, in Lynn, Massachusetts. Charles met Bertha when he was working in a foundry and she in a mill. They boarded at the same house in Lynn, Massachusetts.
With the exception of the two youngest, all of their family was born in Lynn. He was a foundry worker and painter and lived there until 1906, then moved to Manchester, New Hampshire where Kathleen and Pauline were born. He set up the first commercial laundry in the town.
In 1927, they moved to Florida where they remained until her death in 1943. Charles returned to Manchester where he died in 1951.
Submitted by Charles M. McKenna Sr., son (with additions)
- Charles William McKenna was born on January 13, 1869 in DeSable, PEI, and was baptized at St. Malachy’s Church in Kinkora by Father P. Doyle. He was the fourth of ten children born to Anne McKeever and Francis McKenna. Charles was seven years old when his mother died. Five years later, he was living in Newton (his mother’s home community, and just across the fields from where she was raised), with his mother’s sister and brother, Susan and Peter McKeever.
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Sources - [S218240922] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=119634274&pid=1528 - [S227379023] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1900; Census Place: Lynn Ward 3, Essex, Massachusetts; Page: 10; Enumeration District: 0372; FHL microfilm: 1240644.
- [S227379003] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915.
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