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Re: Queensland - tracing the Kemp connections with Airth in Scotland
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 11 June 14 07:46 BST (UK) »
Hi once again distant cousin,
I am fasicinated by the amount of information you have given me and i cannot thank you enough.

Alexander Kemp and Mary Jane Waddell my grand parents, Alexander died before I was born but Mary Jane lived well into her 90's and survived many of her sons.
1. William Thomas Kemp 26/10/1898 - 9/04/1980 married Eleanor Smith 12/06/1908. They had 1 boy and 3 girls. Uncle Bill fought in WW1 on the western front Service No. 1078, 49th BN AIF.
2. Ronald McMillan Kemp B 14/08/1900 married Edna Gertrude Hudson and they had 2 boys and 2 girls - Ron and Edna moved to Adelaide, South Australia.
3. Mary McCall Kemp 27/02/1902 - 1/10/1951 married Alexander McDonald Terry on 23/01/1935, they never had children and aunt Mary died of cancer.
4. Alexander Samuel Kemp 23/7/1904 - 10/05/1957 married Frances Ellen Hawkins and they had 1 son Alexander Robert Kemp.
5. Roy McLean Kemp 26/07/1906 - 7/06/1958 never married
6. Thomas Symons Kemp 16/12/09 - 13/10/1963 married Gloria Blanche Huddy and they had 2 boys and 1 girl.
7. Stanley Hill Kemp 11/05/1912 - 10/06/1974  Uncle Stan was a POW in WW2 captured at the fall on Benghazi and moved from POW camps in Tripoli, North Italy and Brunswick Germany. Service number QX 11368He married late in lift to aunt Doris and that is all I know at this stage.
8. Daniel Mclaren Kemp 10/11/1914 - 28/09/1970 married Esther Cordelia Beatts in 21/05/1946, my parents and I have 2 brothers. Dad server in WW2 QX 11532, 2/31 Battalion. 
Will finish at a later date