Kemp of Newark

[oneeightfour]

Further to my March 2018 post, for the sake of completeness I ought to say that the death certificate for Richard Kemp (1814-1848) confirmed the cause of his death as typhus, and the informant as Mary, his wife. She signed with an 'X'. He and a couple of his younger children would presumably have moved together to Sunderland as a family (and why not!), and would explain perhaps why my great grandfather Tom, after his place of birth on the Censuses 1851-1901 saying accurately that Newark was his birthplace, suddenly decided to enter Sunderland instead in 1911. This would have been the place where perhaps his first conscious memories were formed, although they soon moved back to Newark and he acquired a stepfather in 1853.

[David Layne]

Compiled by John Kemp

[David Layne]

Second part