The surname Kenly was first found in Ayrshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir), formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say long before the establishment of Edinburgh as the capital of Scotland.
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Early History of the Kenly family
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Kenly Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Kemloe, Kemblock, Kemlock, Kemlok and others.
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Early Notables of the Kenly family
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Kenly migration to the United States
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Kenly Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
James Kenly, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1841 [1]
Contemporary Notables of the name Kenly (post 1700)
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J. Kenly Bacon, American politician, U.S. Vice Consul in Callao-Lima, 1932 [2]
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Kenly migration to the United States 
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