Frederick & Mary Kapp, Dublin

[kappm]

Dear AnnClare - Thanks for pointer to National Library of Ireland.  The picture of the Kapp & Peterson workforce is dated 1890-1920 and I'd guess is more likely around 1910 than earlier.  Charles Peterson, who would have been Managing Director then, is clearly recognisable sitting at the centre.
Thanks again for your help.
Marco

[taramcdsmall]

Sorry, I posted something by error !

Tara

[kappm]

Dear Tara - my you guys are good!  I have never see the will of Frederick Kapp or of Mary Kapp and I think the excerpt you pointed me at explains that (his will being unadministered by his wife until she died, her sister Isabel becoming the trustee.  Subsequently Isabel's relative Edward Waugh, a businessman from Gateshead, England, became joint trustee.

I have the Indenture whereby the business left to them by their parents was divided between them in 1893, my grandfather selling his share to Charles Peterson.

My grandfather went on to become a doctor in Gateshead.  I wonder if the trauma of his parents death influenced that decision. Certainly be became very close to Edward Waugh. 

Thanks again for your help.

Marco

[taramcdsmall]

HA

There are always more nuggets of gold to be found when you introduce fresh eyes to the story.

We can only hypothesise what this family went through. Those young boys, to have had what must have been a privileged start to life, yet it chipped away from them year after year HAD to have had a profound effect on their formative years.

Tara

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A Kapp Burial

http://www.igp-web.com/igparchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/1headstones/mt-jerome76.txt

Tara

[taramcdsmall]

Another which you probably already have !

http://www.igp-web.com/igparchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/1headstones/mt-jerome06.txt

Tara

[taramcdsmall]

Image

Tara

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Tara

[kappm]

Not so privileged!  Frederick Kapp was a émigré from Germany.  He set up business in Soho in London as a pipemaker / tobacconist with his brother George, and they soon after jointly went bankrupt.  Frederick started again on his own account, marrying Mary Milburn in 1870. 

She'd been brought up in her penniless grandfather's house near Hadrian's wall and who was taken in by a relative when 14, where she seemed to have acted as a servant girl.  I'm fascinated as to how a country girl from Cumberland ended up marrying a German in London just 6 or 7 years later.  Her sister became an impoverished dressmaker in London.   

This was at peak of London's growth in the 1870's.  Sounds similar to growth of Mumbai now ie big city sucking in impoverished population from rural areas.  Mary must have been delighted to have married a businessman.  Frederick's brother George married in same church a week later.  After George died, his wife ended up marrying Charles Peterson and - according to family papers - his will financed Charles Peterson's patent pipe design - which seemed to have been the rock on which Kapp & Peterson's success was built.

All of which was a revelation to me!

I will write all this up for my family. 

Marco