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1861

Name: John Town
Age: 6
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Caroline Town
Gender: Male
Where born: Rotherhithe, Surrey, England
Civil parish: Poplar All Saints
Ecclesiastical parish: All Saints
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street Address:7 Gough Street

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

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Registration district: Poplar
Sub-registration district: Poplar
ED, institution, or vessel: 11
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 228
Piece: 306
Folio: 125
Page Number: 39
Household Members:
Name Age
Caroline Town 36
John Town 6
Henry Town 5
Ellen Letts 20 visitor

Source Citation: Class: RG 9; Piece: 306; Folio: 125; Page: 39; GSU roll: 542611.

Name: John Town occ mariner
Age: Full Age
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850
Spouse Name: Caroline Bellamy
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 8 Dec 1850
Parish: Rotherhithe St Mary
Borough: Southwark
Father Name: John Town grocer
Spouse Father Name: James Bellamy sawyer
Register Type: Parish Register

Great work again.

this looks like Grace

Name: TOWN, Grace Beatrice J T
Registration district: West Ham
County: Essex
Year of registration: 1883
Quarter of registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's maiden name: Not available before 1911 Q3
Volume no: 4A
Page no: 171


West Ham covered Canning Town

Name: TOWN, Grace Beatrice J T
Registration district: West Ham
County: Essex
Year of registration: 1906
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name: Not available before 1912
Volume no: 4A
Page no: 436
MarriageFinder: Grace Beatrice J T Town married one of the following people:

FISH, Charles Robert
KEMP, Charles
LEES, Mabel Florence

she married Charles Kemp

Name: Grace B J T Kemp
Birth Date: abt 1883
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1958
Age at Death: 75
Registration district: Chatham
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 5b
Page: 395

Oh my gosh, wouldn't that stuff my tree up if she married Charles Fish. John Town married Harriet Smith, and her sister Eliza married Albert Fish. LOL

1911
KEMP, Charles Head Married M 37 1874 Bricklayer Kent Malling E VIEW
KEMP, Grace Wife Married
4 years F 28 1883 London Canning Town VIEW
KEMP, Grace Daughter F 3 1908 Kent Birling VIEW
KEMP, Harry Son M 0 (9 MONTHS) 1911 Kent Snodland VIEW
RG number:
RG14 Piece:
3975 Reference:
RG14PN3975 RG78PN151 RD48 SD1 ED13 SN166

Registration District:
Malling Sub District:
Aylesford Enumeration District:
13 Parish:
Snodland

Address:
Malling Road Snodland County:
Kent

married 4 years 2 children born to date

Ty again :)

You know what, I have a pile of old photographs here I am sifting through, trying to link them to ancestors. Nan had pictures of everyone, but very few have names to them. I think I saw a postcard with Kemps written on it..brb as I dig back in and see if I can find it..how exciting!

OOH I do hope its the right Town/Kemp family :-D :-D

Found it! Christmas Day 1937. A couple in their 50's? (so hard to tell). Signed what appears to be a G and B. K Someone has written on the other end Kemp and some numbers.

The age would fit Grace, but the "B"? In the ideal world his real name or middle name is William and everyone called him Uncle Bill ;-)

maybe he was just called BIll. I have family that didnt go by their birth names and some whose deaths were reg in the name they were known as rather than their birth name

Name: KEMP, Charles
Registration district: Chatham
County: Kent
Year of registration: 1964
Quarter of registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at death: 90
Volume no: 5B
Page no: 281



At least we know its the right John Town line

Wishful thinking on my part I think. The G could well be a C..very flourished. But the last initial - K is most definite. I am almost certain it is a picture of Mr and Mrs Kemp ( which ones unknown).

well she was Grace Beatrice maybe the B is her and she was known as Beatrice or Beatie

Oh could well be..making it C and B. K And I am positive mum has mentioned an Aunt Beattie..and also mentioned a holiday in Kent???? How interesting.

A query, because of course I've got all excited and not followed the cardinal rules..but it does look like we have found John.......
However, John was recorded being born..
1861 Rotherlithe
1871 Rotherlithe
1891 Deptford
1901 Walthamstow

Are all of these places relatively close together?

Rotherhithe and Deptford are on the south of the River Thames and next door boroughs only about a mile apart . Walthamstow is East London though. about 12.7 miles from Rotherhithe so not that far away

It would seem that he didn't really know where he was born and maybe thought it was where the family last lived. Sometimes the enumerator would ask where are you from rather than where born, so the answer would be where they had moved from .

Lots of my fathers family were from Deptford and Rotherhithe. they started in Rotherhithe and moved to Deptford areas