KEMP Robert

[Jamjar]

He's on this list:

http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/voyage-passengers-all/945929/29/08/1853%20-%2024/12/1853?title=&page=9

Jamjar

[cando]

Obviously omitted from the one I linked.  SA Records Passenger search is not functioning at the moment.  Passenger list survival rate in SA is poor and lists have been compiled from various sources including BISA   I will see if the passenger list for the EPAMINONDAS is listed tomorrow when hopefully SA Records website is functioning properly.  Seems to be down a lot these days.

Sources for passenger lists on Shipslist website.

State Library South Australia, official passenger lists, mainly of immigrants arriving in South Australia under United Kingdom assisted passage schemes, 1847-1886 GRG 35/48a (formerly ACC 313); Sydney Shipping Gazette; South Australian Register; The South Australian Government Gazette; Biographical index SA 1836-1885 (the B-index column indicates individuals who may be found in that index, with corresponding reference number for further research)

Cheers
Cando

[cando]

The name KEMP not included in the list of 'Government emigrants' who arrived on the EPAMINONDAS - published in the South Australian Register.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48549121

Nor is he listed as an unassisted immigrant at SA Archives
https://www.archives.sa.gov.au/content/our-catalogue

Why his arrival is noted as c1853 in BISA?

Cando

[tiddle]

SA Records have some records for the Destitute Asylum and Board.
http://www.archives.sa.gov.au/content/social-welfare

I think SAGenealogy may have some records in their holdings.  Been years since I've visited their premises.

Marriage
KEMP Robert  23 years  Status Single  Father Unrecorded [not recorded on SA certificates until post 1856]
PETERSON Elizabeth Jane  Age FL  Father Unrecorded
23 Jan 1856
At St Paul Church, Port Adelaide  Ade A 25/102

Nine children from 1853 to 1873.  Three born prior to marriage.

Deaths -
KEMP Elizabeth Jane  34 years  Status Married  Relative Robert KEMP [Husband]
4 Oct 1873
Residence Port Augusta   Death Place Port Augusta  Fro 54/137

KEMP Robert  52 years  Status Not recorded
25 Oct 1873
Residence Port Augusta   Death Place Port Augusta  Fro S 54/266
 
I can't check Elizabeth's age on her burial record as the Old Port Augusta Cemetery's records were destroyed by fire in 1944.  Her death notice has her age as 34 years.   If she was of full age in 1856 then should would have been at least 38 in 1873.  She had her first child in 1853.

Cando

Thanks cando.  I've also noticed that there is a big difference between Roberts recorded age on the marriage record and compared with the one on the death record.  I'm leaning towards the death record being more accurate as it has newspapers entries to back up the age.  Thoughts?