Frederick & Mary Kapp, Dublin

[kappm]

In 1874, my great-grandfather Frederick Kapp founded a pipemaking firm in Dublin that, after his death in 1881, evolved into Kapp Brothers, and then into the renowned pipemakers Kapp & Peterson, which today trades as Peterson of Dublin.

I'm interested in locating any pictures of Frederick, Mary, or her sister Isabel Milburn, who looked after Frederick & Mary's two children in Dublin after Mary died in 1882, and in gleaning any other information about Frederick, Mary or Isabel.

In return, I'd be happy to share information I've pulled together from family records and published sources on the history of Frederick Kapp, pipemaker, Kapp Bros and Kapp & Peterson.

Marco Kapp
England

[taramcdsmall]

Hi There

I presume that you have these !

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/c000160012166

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/8506920011938

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/269c970011939

Tara

[taramcdsmall]

I'm sure that you have these articles but I shall post just in case !

http://www.apassionforpipes.com/storage/FiresignGreshamRev6.pdf

http://pipedia.org/wiki/Peterson

http://www.alpascia.com/moments/d/Peterson-i25338.html

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24153/page/5585/data.pdf

OK SO, I have just realised that there are a LOT of articles re him and would be here a long time posting them all HA !

Tara

[taramcdsmall]

findmypast.ie has a lot of the Kapp / Kapp & Peterson directory references !

Tara

[annclare]

Another source-
http://collections.europarchive.org/nli/20121019111650/http://comeheretome.com/2012/10/15/kapp-and-peterson/

The National Library has some digitised photos of the K&P work place. Might be worthwhile checking their Photographic  archive to see if there is any of the family.
http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=Kapp&type=AllFields&submit=FIND

annclare

[taramcdsmall]

findmypast.ie has a huge amount of newspaper articles with the family mentioned, not sure if there are any pictures though.

So sad !


Tara

[kappm]

Thank you Tara (taramcdsmall) for your lightening-fast response.  I have searched Irish and London newspapers, Irish census returns, Church records (including burial records) and FindMyPast / Ancestry and believe that over the years I've gathered all info there is from these sources.  However, I'd not come across little Millicent's baptism certificate and was very moved to see it.  Thanks for pointing me at it.

Frederick, her father died at a quite young age in 1881, his wife Mary gave birth a month later to Millicent who died soon after.  Mary died 12 months to the day after her husband leaving 2 small boys who were brought up by Mary's sister Isabel.

It's an extraordinarily tragic tale and I'd guess the boys were traumatized by these successive events.

Their father's business was inherited by their mother and, in turn by her sons.  It was held in trust for them until they came of age in the 1890s (hence the business being called Kapp Brothers).  One of them (my grandfather) sold his share to Charles Peterson who worked for the firm - which was then renamed and went public as Kapp & Peterson, becoming the largest pipe-maker in Ireland.

The stuff put out on the web by the pipe community is confused and much is untrue.  I myself am keen to provide an accurate story of my family background for my children and grandchildren. Its photos of Frederick and Mary Kapp, and Isabel Milburn, that I'm most missing

Thank you for your assistance with providing a full picture.

Marco

[taramcdsmall]

Hi Marco,

I'm sure there MUST be a book to written on your family and it would be SO nice to have it from a family perspective whom would be thorough with the information and not just rehashing general points which most of the articles seem to do.

Annclare may be pointing you in the right direction as to where, if there are any pictures, that they MIGHT be.

There were a lot of photographic studios at the time in Dublin, and given the fact that the Kapps were an up and coming family in Dublin, I'm sure there must have been some personal photos taken . . . they would most likely though have been kept in the family, and given all the turmoil that there was in such a short space of time may mean that they were mislaid.

Have you tried ALL descendents or the Frederick's in laws to see where they passed on somewhere ?

Tara

[taramcdsmall]

Have you seen Frederick's will ?

http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014897/005014897_00201.pdf

Tara