I am continually surprised by how many of my Nova Scotian family lines
infiltrated the other islands down home – the Arbuckles & Riggs are two
with deep connections to PEI.
This tale is about one Marjorie Ellen Kennedy who married a baseball
player.
Born in Charlottetown, PEI, she was the daughter of tailor & furrier
father, Joseph Kennedy & Ida Riggs. According
to the marriage extract found with her husband’s delayed birth registration,
Marjorie & Philip Mellish Lane married in 1930 at Halifax, NS. Philip was the son of lawyer father, Charles Wilkin
Lane & Phoebe Jane Large.
As an original Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Mellish was the
"Iron Man" of the Maritime Baseball League of the 1920's and 1930's with the ability to pitch with both hands! He played for the Maritime College Players team that won 52 of 69 games.
Philip died in 1976 and Marjorie in 1991 - they are buried at Saint Peter's Anglican in Charlottetown, PEI
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| courtesy of Lynn Ellis (Billion Graves) |
Hello - I found this interesting as it appears that he was descended from John Hamilton Lane (1757-1801) and Jane Vere Hunt (1767-1807) meaning that he would be a distant cousin. Records in Nova Scotia to where I recently moved, don't have the information on JHLS wife but it is clearly in the records in Limerick. The Lanes and the de Vere Hunts had adjoining properties of Lanespark and Glengoole and they were married February 10, 1782 in Ballingary, Ireland.
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