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Occupation Interests / Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« on: Wednesday 25 October 06 20:52 BST (UK) »
I'm amazed at how many cork cutters there seem to have been!
In tracing back my family tree I have found my g g g grandfather George Kemp (born in Bethnal Green 1811) was a cork cutter. After he married he went to Hull for some years and then to Portsmouth where he settled. He died in 1895 - we think in the Workhouse!
His son, Joseph Paxton Kemp Born 1853 in Portsmouth) was a cork cutter as was another son Charles Kemp (born 1855 in Portsmouth.)
Hope this helps
In tracing back my family tree I have found my g g g grandfather George Kemp (born in Bethnal Green 1811) was a cork cutter. After he married he went to Hull for some years and then to Portsmouth where he settled. He died in 1895 - we think in the Workhouse!
His son, Joseph Paxton Kemp Born 1853 in Portsmouth) was a cork cutter as was another son Charles Kemp (born 1855 in Portsmouth.)
Hope this helps