Kenly History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Scotland

Early Origins of the Kenly family

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.

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.

Early Notables of the Kenly family

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Kenly migration to the United States +

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) +

J. Kenly Bacon, American politician, U.S. Vice Consul in Callao-Lima, 1932 2

Historic Events for the Kenly family +

USS Indianapolis

Oliver Wesley Kenly (1913-1980), American crew member on board the ship "USS Indianapolis" when she was on a top secret trip for the first nuclear weapon, she was sunk by Japanese Navy on 30th July 1945, he survived the sinking 3

Sources +

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)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 25) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
Final Crew List, retrieved 2021, October 30th Retrieved from https://www.ussindianapolis.com/final-crew