Sarah Ann Kielly, Feb. 22, 1979, at age 100 photo by SE. Lawson

of whom, Robert, lived in Cove Head on 10 acres of land leased from the Montgomery brothers in fee simple, where Roy Bell now lives. Robert was born in 1819, and in 1851 he married Mary Murphy, born in 1830, the daughter of Andrew Murphy of Charlotte Town and granddaughter of Major Alexander Mutch of Mermaid. In the 1861 census Robert is listed as a fisherman, with two boats, and operating one fishing establishment; in that year he produced 276 barrels of mackerel, 10 barrels of herring, 12 quintals of cod and hake and 8 gallons of fish oil. At this time he and Mary had eight children, and in 1871, eleven; they eventually had fourteen, but four died young. Mary died in 1894, and Robert was married for a second time in 1895 to Isabella Douglas of Covehead, daughter of Edward and Helen (Coffin) Douglas. Of Robert and Mary’s children, the eldest, Cordelia, married Robert Marshall; the next child, Mary Lucretia, married as his second Wife, William Brown. The eldest son, Charles William (Wellington), became a schoolmaster and taught in various Island schools, and was married twice; first to Maude Mooreside, and secondly to Lucy Bell. The next son, John Andrew, married Sarah Lawson; the third son, Malcolm Shaw Kielly married Maggie Jane Douglas, and these two brothers built a homestead on the “Dollery

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