village of Kinkora falls within that western fifteen miles of

the Anderson Road.

The first information available about the original settlers of Kinkora comes from the l84l Census;

27 provided the following description

Anderson Road Settlement,

Irish Town:

of the

new road from bedeque to Charlottetown

called the Anderson

on the back end of the lot;

been settled within years. The nearest is about five miles about 26 miles from

is situated it has all the last eight

Road; it

port is Bedeque which

distance. It is Charlottetown.

(8)

called by some, this settlement is on the

the enumerator for Lot

settlement:

It is on the basis of this information that 1833 is the

year suggested for the original settlement of Kinkora.

listS'

in the settlement in 1841.

who held leases with eight years expired;

the names of the thirty—seven heads of households

An asterisk (*) identifies those

it is suggested by

Below,

Table 1

this author that these, plus several others similarly identified,(9)

were probably the first to settle in Kinkora.

Table l:

**

* i» * ‘X * ~X ‘X #-

Beagan, Brenan, Brenan, Brenan, Thomas Cahill, Michael Clear, Andrew Clear, Thomas Donag, William Duffy, James Huffy, Michael Duffy, Patrick Keefe, John Kelly, John Kelly, Leslie Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Michael IcBride, Thomas

Philip John, John

Sr.

McCarvill, McCarvill, McCarvill,

Mclver,

Muligan,

Murphy, Murphy, Murphy, Murphy,

O'Ranaghan,

Rennie, Ryan,

Shreenan, Shreenan, Shreenan, Summers, Trainer,

Michael Patrick William

{ugh

Peter

Francis Francis Hugh Patrick John John

Edward

Catherine

Lanty

Owen Maurice Thomas

Wall, James

Welsh, Young,

James Patrick