Dunbrack Family History - Person Sheet
NameAlexander Kent 
Birthabt 1751, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland176
FatherAlexander Kent (1729-)
MotherMary Donaldson (1729-)
Misc. Notes
From Alloa Scotland, prior to the early 1770s.
From Linda Shaw:
He was a sergeant in the 6th Regiment of Foot, later known as the Royal Warwickshire, and his regiment used to return to that English county to recruit, where he met Hannah.
From Helen Gibson, correspondent, the Sprague Project (http://www.sprague-database.org), note of March 22nd, 2006:
“From The Truro Weekly News (Kent Family of Musquodobiot by D. Reid): In the year 1785 Alexander Kent, an officer in the army of King George III, left the shores of his native England to seek a new home in the New World, a tract of land in the province of New Brunswick having been granted to him. He was accompanied by his young wife, Hannah Swinburne,and while the ship lay for a time in Dublin Bay his eldest son, James, was born. Sgt. Kent went to the West Indies on business connected with his retirement on half-pay and died there. Many years ago an old man told the writer (D. Reid) that it was reported that he had been killed in a duel but if it was true his grandchildren where ignorant of it. Comment: James Kent, the brother of Alexander, in a land grant says that Alexander died of the effects of the bad climate. This is quite possible since the British Army had many deaths due to the yellow fever while stationed in St. Lucia.”64
From Linda Shaw:
He was a sergeant in the 6th Regiment of Foot, later known as the Royal Warwickshire, and his regiment used to return to that English county to recruit, where he met Hannah.
From Helen Gibson, correspondent, the Sprague Project (http://www.sprague-database.org), note of March 22nd, 2006:
“From The Truro Weekly News (Kent Family of Musquodobiot by D. Reid): In the year 1785 Alexander Kent, an officer in the army of King George III, left the shores of his native England to seek a new home in the New World, a tract of land in the province of New Brunswick having been granted to him. He was accompanied by his young wife, Hannah Swinburne,and while the ship lay for a time in Dublin Bay his eldest son, James, was born. Sgt. Kent went to the West Indies on business connected with his retirement on half-pay and died there. Many years ago an old man told the writer (D. Reid) that it was reported that he had been killed in a duel but if it was true his grandchildren where ignorant of it. Comment: James Kent, the brother of Alexander, in a land grant says that Alexander died of the effects of the bad climate. This is quite possible since the British Army had many deaths due to the yellow fever while stationed in St. Lucia.”64
Spouses
Birth27 Apr 1755, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England67
BurialPine Grove Cemetery, Stewiacke East, NS (buried with her 2nd husband, Stephen Gourley)
Burial MemoObserved 28 Sep 2015 by Roland Dunbrack
FatherJohn Swinbourne (1717-)
MotherMary Shemmons (~1725-)
Misc. Notes
She is buried with Stephen Gourley, her second husband, after Alexande Kent. The grave is in Pine Grove Cemetery, Stewiacke East, NS located here;
3056 Alton road
Stewiacke East
Colchester County
Nova Scotia Canada
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 45.14975, Longitude: -63.29492
The grave is in the southeast corner of the old section of the cemetery (diagonally opposite the corner you enter from the road). Look for the name “Gourley” near the top.
3056 Alton road
Stewiacke East
Colchester County
Nova Scotia Canada
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 45.14975, Longitude: -63.29492
The grave is in the southeast corner of the old section of the cemetery (diagonally opposite the corner you enter from the road). Look for the name “Gourley” near the top.