Veronica (Franey) Kinsey
ID # 8744, (1825-1857)
| Father | John Kinsey (1800-1852) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Moxley (1806-1883) |
| Birth | Veronica (Franey) Kinsey was born on 10 April 1825. |
| Marriage | She married Nelson Newcombe on 21 November 1844 at Preston, Waterloo Co., Canada West. The following is taken from The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Vol. 9, Pt 1, Wellington District, 1840-1852, compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton (now of Ottawa), 2013. The Newcombe-Kinsey marriage is to be found on page 29 of a long list of marriages which begins on page 27 and which was performed by Rev. Jacob Huttner of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Preston (St. Peter's) for the year of 1844. (The Wellington District Marriage Register is not in the hands of the Archives of Ontario, but is conserved and microfilmed at the Wellington County Museum in Fergus.) It reads: Nelson Newcombe to Frenny Kinsey, both of Waterloo, 21 Nov 1844, by Licence. Rev. Huttner. (Rev. Huttner was minister at St. Peter's from 1838 to 1849.) The Waterloo Region branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has some databases available via the main website of the Ontario Genealogical Society. For St. Peter's, the database is quite large, some 900 pages, and takes time to load. Image 53 records the above marriage. This tells us little more of the above other than that the marriage was held in Preston. No family information is provided and no witnesses are listed. See notes for Nelson. |
| Death | She died on 26 June 1857 at age 32. |
| Burial | She was buried at Kinsey Biehn Cemetery, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Co.. |
| Note | Ezra Eby's Volume 1 of his two volume work A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, 1895, page 844, is a source of at least some information for Franey Kinsey. It tells that her proper name was Veronica. It shows her date of birth as April 10, 1825 and her date of death as June 26, 1857. This latter agrees with a transcription of the Kinzie-Biehn Cemetery near Doon. The bio gets questionable when it goes on to say that she and husband Nelson Newcombe resided in Listowel and had one child. Consider the following: We must believe Franey Kinsey to be with Nelson Newcomb, her husband, in North Dumfries Township as of the 1851 census. The enumerator, however, simply wrote her name as Mrs. Newcomb. She died in 1857 and, per the transcription of the Kinzie Bean (Biehn) Cemetery, she is buried with Nelson Newcomb. The list of children shown here for Nelson and Franey is taken from the 1851 census and, as well, the 1861 census. Some inferring is done here for as of the 1861 census at least some of the Newcomb children are with Franey's mother and two of the children are with Samuel and Nancy Kinzie in Woolwich Township. Per Volume 1 of Eby's biographies and his Kinzie family records, Samuel Kinzie was indeed Franey's brother and uncle to the two Newcombe children, Louisa and Charles. Nelson remarried in 1859 and it does appear that he had at least one child, Esther, by his second wife. Neither wife Sarah nor daughter Esther have been found after the 1861 census. |
Children of Veronica (Franey) Kinsey and Nelson Newcombe |
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| Last Edited | 19 Apr 2022 |