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Title: Where did William go?
Post by: mc8 on Thursday 27 February 25 12:34 GMT (UK)
Returning to my family tree after many years...
Ive lost track of William Kemp b 28.9.1906 Camberwell
He is in the 1921 with mother and siblings in Holbeck Row, working as a messenger boy but nothing after that-no marriage, military record, death or move abroad that I can find
His family had moved to Ascot in the 1939 register

Any ideas?
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: hanes teulu on Thursday 27 February 25 12:57 GMT (UK)
Re his 1921 employment and place of work -

Evening News, 11 May 1922
CORNELLS LIMITED  Head Office 1 West Smithfield, E.C. 1
Official Agents - The District Messenger & Theatre Ticket Co. Ltd
Branches - 100 St. Martin's Lane.
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: LizzieL on Thursday 27 February 25 13:19 GMT (UK)
have you eliminated the marriage of William S Kemp to  Doris E Parsley in Blyth district 1937. It looks like they are in Suffolk in 1939, William has correct dob
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: SkyeSpotter on Thursday 27 February 25 13:22 GMT (UK)
have you eliminated the marriage of William S Kemp to  Doris E Parsley in Blyth district 1937. It looks like they are in Suffolk in 1939, William has correct dob

I found this too but the image of the register the dob is actually 25th not 28th.
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: LizzieL on Thursday 27 February 25 13:27 GMT (UK)
Oh yes, so it is. So he'd be the William Stanley Kemp who's birth reg is in Blything Q4 1906
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: mc8 on Thursday 27 February 25 14:16 GMT (UK)
Thanks for hunting
I imagine he stayed in Camberwell when his family moved to Ascot where they lived in a hotel/ boarding house but I can't find him in the 1939. And no military record so it made me wonder if he emigrated..
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: mc8 on Thursday 27 February 25 14:27 GMT (UK)
I fished out the birth certificate and dob is 28 September 1906
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: LizzieL on Thursday 27 February 25 15:02 GMT (UK)
There are a number of William Kemps of the right sort of age on passenger lists emigrating before 1939.
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: mc8 on Thursday 27 February 25 15:17 GMT (UK)
No middle name so that may narrow it down
Title: Re: Where did William go?
Post by: softly softly on Thursday 27 February 25 16:14 GMT (UK)
William never appears on electoral registers with mother Alice & brother Stephen who are living at 5 Holbeck Row, Camberwell until 1928/9.

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Please see this link to view William's death certificate.

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