Mackenzie-Kennedy Family

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.

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