John Kelly and his brother Phillip arrived in Canada in 1816. Family documents say that they were from Tipperary, Ireland.
John was born about 1795 and Phillip about 1790.

John married Sarah Berry in 1822 and had a family of nine children;
Mary Anne, Edmund, John, Phillip, Jane, Catherine, Rebecca, Richard and Robert. The family lived in the Turtle Creek area in Albert County, N.B. Later generations relocated to Stilesville, N.B., other provinces in Canada, as well as the United States