Margaret McKeever (McIver)^[1]

1849 - 1931  (81 years)

• Name	Margaret McKeever (McIver)  [2, 3]
  Nickname	Maggie
  Birth	14 May 1849	Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Mar 1931	Borden, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Burial	St. Peter's Cemetery, Seven Mile Bay, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Person ID	P248	The McIver Family Tree
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Hugh McKeever (McIver),   b. Ireland d. 24 Mar 1857, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Mother	Mary Quinn,   b. Ireland d. 19 May 1876, Crapaud, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Marriage	1825	Ireland
  Family ID	F36	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Francis Kelly,   b. 28 Dec 1850, Kelly’s Cross, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 5 Jan 1945, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	26 Jan 1880	Prince Edward Island, Canada   [2]
  Children	1. Mary Maud Kelly,   b. 18 Nov 1880, North Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 1951, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 70 years)   2. Charles Emmett Kelly,   b. 15 Dec 1881, North Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 15 Dec 1982, Albany, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 101 years)   3. Annie Estelle Kelly,   b. 11 Apr 1884, North Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 4 Aug 1950, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 66 years)   4. Francis Hugh Kelly,   b. 27 Feb 1886, North Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 22 Jul 1939, Albany, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 53 years)   5. Frances Kelly,   b. 15 Nov 1887, Kelly's Cross, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. Oct 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Age 74 years)   6. Margaret Kelly,   b. 9 Dec 1888, North Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 1951, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Age 62 years) + 7. Joseph Edward Kelley,   b. 24 Jun 1890, North Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 30 Aug 1970, Stoneham, Massachusetts, USA (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2020

  
  

• Photos

  Photo - Margaret McKeever Kelly with her family Front: Francis Kelly and Margaret McKeever Kelly Back (left to right): Annie, Emmett, Frances, Frank, Margaret, Joseph, Mary Maud

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Marriage Record - Margaret McIver and Francis Kelly Married on January 26, 1880. Attendants were Susan McIver and John Bradley.
  		Census - 1891 Census of Canada - Lot 31, Queen's, Prince Edward Island, Canada The family is split between page 26 and page 27. This is the first page, containing just the parents, Margaret and Francis Kelly.
  		Census - 1891 Census of Canada - Lot 31, Queen's, Prince Edward Island, Canada The family is split between page 26 and page 27. This is the second page, containing just the children of Margaret and Francis Kelly.
  		Census - 1901 Census of Canada - Lot 26, Prince, Prince Edward Island (Newton)- Page 8
  		Census - 1911 Census of Canada - Lot 28, Prince, Prince Edward Island The family is split between page 6 and page 7. This is the first page, containing just the parents, Margaret and Francis Kelly.
  		Census - 1911 Census of Canada - Lot 28, Prince, Prince Edward Island The family is split between page 6 and page 7. This is the second page, containing just the children of Margaret and Francis Kelly.
  		Census - 1921 Census of Canada - Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  		Death Record - Margaret Kelly In Memoriam article published in The Charlottetown Guardian on April 23, 1931. Margaret died on March 13, 1931 at Port Borden, Prince Edward Island.

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone - Margaret and Francis Kelly Located at St. Peter's Cemetery, Seven Mile Bay, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

  
  

• Notes

  Margaret McKeever Kelly was the youngest of the eleven children born to Hugh McKeever and Mary Quinn. She was born in 1849 on Prince Edward Island. Margaret was nine years old when her father died. The marriage register shows Margaret married Francis Kelly on January 26, 1880 in Desable, Lot 65. They were married by Father James A.E. MacDonald and the witnesses were John Bradley and Susan McIver. They had seven children. The family home was in Borden, PEI and was on land known as Kelly’s Point. In the early 1990s this property became the staging ground for the construction of the Confederation Bridge. Frank Kelly was born at Kelly’s Cross, PEI. He was a carriage builder, a trade he worked at all his life. He worked in a carriage shop in Shamrock and in a shop owned by Dan Noonan at Bedeque. He also spent a short time in the Western United States. He eventually had his own shop at Borden. He also built the tread mills that were used for power in those days. They used horses or other animals as a source of power on those mills. He could do many things with wood, even making his own pipes for which he used roots of apple trees. Frank was a real scrappy Irishman! When he had a few nips, he wasn’t a bit modest about his abilities in this field. He loved horses and dearly loved to get out on the road with a good stepping horse, even when he was nearly ninety years of age. The home at the Kelly’s Shore became the gathering place for the McKeever women. They would bring children and grandchildren to the beautiful shore and entertain each other. Margaret died in 1931 at the age of eighty-two years. Two of their seven children, Maud and Emmett, stayed at home and cared for their parents in their older years. Annie and Frank Jr. also remained in PEI, where they married and raised families. The youngest three children, Fanny, Maggie, and Joe, all settled in Massachusetts. Only Joe married and had a family. Margaret and Francis are buried in St. Peter’s Cemetery at Seven Mile Bay. Researched by Desmond McIvor

  
  

• Sources

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