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Emma Carleton Jack (1825-1895) was born at Castle-Martyr, County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Joseph Kenah, an officer in the British Army, and Mary Allen who was the 7th daughter of Loyalist Isaac Allen from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents met and married in New Brunswick when her father was stationed in the province. Emma had 3 older siblings, Sarah, Harry and William, of whom she was especially fond. Another sister, Charlotte, was born sometime after 1835. The Kenahs returned to New Brunswick with their family around 1836.
Emma married William Jack (1811- 1886), a lawyer and Queen's Counsel, Advocate General and the Warden of the Municipality in Saint John, New Brunswick in September 1840. Their children were: William, (1841-1846); Arthur (1841-1846); Isaac (1843-1903); Mary Rebecca (1845-1929); Alice D. (1847-1921); Edith Herbert (1849-1922); Fanny Allen (1854-1913); Emma Carleton Kenah (1856-1918); William Arthur (1859-1926); Helen Ramsay (1861-1934); and Beatrice Dearwyne (1863-1931).
Mary Rebecca married Thomas Walker, M.D. (d. 1925) at St. Paul's Church in Portland Parish (Saint John North). Edith Herbert married Warwick Wickham Street on 16 October 1872. Beatrice Dearwyne married Roderick MacKenzie, manager of the Bank of Montreal in Cornwall, Ontario.
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This fonds consists of correspondence, legal papers, appointments, financial documents, ephemera, and Jack family notes and writings.
The correspondence, 1833-1899, is primarily family (mostly between Emma and William) and 2 other letters including a letter of reference for William Kenah and a letter to T. Jack with a Notman photo from Lord Frederick Poulet.
Legal papers include deeds and land contracts, court cases (Richard Sands v. James Keaton, Edward L. Thorne, and Lovitt v. Clark, Supreme Court, 1795) and a contract for a yearly allowance to John and Hannah Allan, 1806. There are also resolutions on the death of William Jack in 1886 and draft minutes of an investigation concerning Joseph Hea.
Family writings include a typescript, "Ireland" - E.C.J. about the reminiscences of Emma Carleton Jack of life in Ireland before coming to Canada and provides information about her family members, probably written for her children and grandchildren. Works by William Jack include an account of his life as a lawyer, a personal account of the Saint John fire of 1877, and a short articles about New Brunswick history. There is also some and poetry written by William Jack, aged 20.
There are certicates of appointments for John Curry, as Justice of the Peace, Sunbury Co.; Isaac Allan Jack as Recorder for Saint John, 1885; Joseph Kenah as Captain of 104th Regiment, 1816; and William Jack, Queen's Counsel, 1880. There is also a notebook prepared by D.W. Jack containing instructions for a gauger.
There are a few receipts for general items and a stock certificate for the Caledonia Mining and Manufacturing Company belonging to William Jack.
Ephemera consists of Coronation service booklets (1911), ribbons, menu, dried flowers, a collection of bookplates and envelopes, and a certificate of the Cooper Union Women's School of Art given to Emma Jack.
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Acquired from Emma Carleton Jack estate, 1927-1934
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The Kenah commission was part of the Museum's Irish Exhibit, 20 June 1997