Kelligrews
Neighbourhood


Conception Bay South, NL (Nearby: Paradise, Wabana, Mount Pearl, Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview, Portugal Cove-St. Philip's)

1 - 715 CONCEPTION BAY HWY
Conception Bay South, A1X 2T0


Newfoundland Tourism Region : Avalon


Kelligrews: There are two possibilities according to the material presented in the ENL to the origin of this settlement's name.

The first, which is based on "local tradition", is that Kelligrews is associated with the name of a seventeenth- century pirate, Captain Kelly and that the settlements name was a corruption of "Kelly's Grove".

The second is that the settlement was named after a Conception Bay merchant family, the Kelligrews.

According to their sources there was a man who went by the name of William Kellegrew in near by Port de Grave as early as 1760.

Used with permission from "Uncovering the Origin of 1001 Unique Place Names in Newfoundland and Labrador" 2021 Jennifer Leigh Hill

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