MACKENZIE-KENNEDY Family

Description

MACKENZIE-KENNEDY FAMILY (also Kennedy, Mackenzie, Seaforth, Shaw et al families): family trees, 11th-20th centuries /1-3, 4q-6q, 7-8/; family-history notes /9-24/; individual family members' education, official & military (including Indian Army) documents, correspondence (including Palmerston /32-33/), photographs etc, 1782-1994 /25-57, 58q, 59-104/.


CHESSBOROUGH JAMES HENRY MACKENZIE-KENNEDY (1886-1940): C V J Mackenzie-Kennedy notes on family Russian connection, 1991 /105/; official, career (Tovarishchestvo vozdukhoplavaniia Kennedi, St Petersburg; Kennedy Aeroplanes, London; Flamingo Manufacturing Company, London; Air Post of Banks Ltd, London), legal documents (including pass for Gosudarstvennaia Duma (State Duma), 1908), family correspondence (including invitations to wedding with Z Ia Koriakova, St Petersburg, 1910; Convent of the Blessed Lady, Abingdon, 1921), [1886]-1950 /106-163/; photographs, 1890s-1930s /164-176/; Lieut-Col B Roustam Bek "Aerial Russia: The Romance of the Giant Aeroplane" (London/New York, 1916) (photocopy) /177/; articles (some photocopies) on contribution to aviation and other inventions etc, 1919-1942 /178-184/; V G Aston "Modeli letatel'nykh mashin: Kak ikh chertit' i stroit'" ([St Petersburg: Chessboro M-Kennedi, 1910]) /185/. `Liubitel' vozdukhoplavaniia' [C G Grey] "Letanie: Pochemu i kak my letaem?"
([St Petersburg: Chessboro M- Kennedi, 1913]) (letter from L Kurilovich to C V J Mackenzie-Kennedy (1965) enclosed) /186-187/.


ZINAIDA MACKENZIE-KENNEDY (nee Zinaida Iakovlevna Koriakova) (1888-1972): CheKa death-sentence committal & prison release documents, Petrograd, 1920 (with English translations) (include photocopy) /188-191/; US Legation, Riga, identification card /192/; British passport, 1925 /193/; Northern Ireland travel permit, 1945 /194/; correspondence (some photocopies) with US State Department etc (including memorandum on seizure of US Embassy in Petrograd in 1919; "American Consular Bulletin" (Washington), 6 (1924)) & British Foreign Office, 1921-1934 /195-205/; Russian claims forms & letters from C J H Mackenzie-Kennedy, 1923-1933 /206-218/; settlement of Russian claims received by C V J Mackenzie-Kennedy, 1986-1990 /219-253/; photographs: Koriakov family, 1890s-1910s /254-266/, engagement & marriage to C J H Mackenzie-Kennedy, 1910-1911 /267-274/, with staff of US Legation, Riga, et al, 1920s /275-284/.


CHESSBOROUGH VLADIMIR JAMES MACKENZIE-KENNEDY (1911-2003): official (also modern photographs of St Peterburg birthplace & English Church), education, career & citizenship documents (also wife's & son's official documents) and correspondence, [1911]-2003 /285-331/; letters to newspapers etc, 1949-1998 /332-336/; photographs, St Petersburg, Riga, Germany (including Blohm & Voss, Hamburg), UK, 1911-1980 /337-404/; photograph of painting of SS Arcturus. 1921 /405/.


KATHLEEN THWAITES, PAULINE SARGENT (nee MACKENZIE-KENNEDY), CHRISTOPHER DAVID KENNEDY: official & family documents & correspondence, 1926-2006, nd /406-417/; photographs, 1920s-1983 /418-432/.


MILDRED MACKENZIE-KENNEDY; Anon "A Proposal to the Ladies of Great Britain [...]" (Bath, 1794) (ex libris Mildred Mackenzie-Kennedy) /433/.


[4q-6q, 58q housed in large box at WCS2/K5/4.1 (May 2023)]

Provenance

Mackenzie-Kennedy, Chessborough V J (August & September 1991, October 1992); Kennedy, Christopher & Cynthia (July 2017, November 2018, February 2019)

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