John Kemsley
& Charlotte Rose Hawk
"A John Kemsley, born in Kent in 1816, was a tanner who moved in pursuance of his calling first to Bermondsey and later to Shrewsbury. He and his wife Charlotte Rose had a daughter and six sons John, Stamford, Mark, Albert, Arthur and Frederick. Stamford (born in 1850) had a son James Stamford who called on me in London in 1936 when on a visit from Allerton, Liverpool, where he was a police fireman. He spoke of his uncles Mark and Frederick, at that time living at Stafford. His uncle Arthur (born in 1855) and his wife Alice Huthwaite had a son Arthur, born in the cathedral city of Lincoln in 1885, who emigrated to the United States, where he married Edith Scripps from Detroit and died in 1948."
- Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley, 1980, "Kentish Kemsleys and Their Descendants", private publication, pp 18/19.
John Kemsley was actually born about 1919 in Hollingbourne, Kent [Source 1871 census]. His wife Charlotte was born about 1821 in Hadlour, Kent. In 1860 they were living at Frankwell, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. At the 1871 census John was a Tanner, and they lived in Atcham, St Chad, Shropshire. At that time their children living with them were Mark (18), Arthur (13), Frederick (10) and Rose (6).
Issue of John and Charlotte Rose Kemsley
Children Grandchildren Great-grandchildren Rose
(born abt 1865)John Kemsley Stamford Kemsley
(born 1850)James Stamford Kemsley Mark Kemsley Albert Kemsley Arthur Kemsley
(born 1855)
md Alice HuthwaiteArthur (b.Lincoln 1885)
married Edith Scripps,
Detroit, USAArthur (born 1915)
married Ruth PardeeGeorge Scripps Kemsley
(born 1921)
married Grace GardinerFrederick Kemsley
(born 1860)
md Mary Ann OwenFlorence,
married William MooreLucy,
married David JohnsonWalter Jack Edward Frederick Gertrude (born 1893)
married Frederick NichollsLucy Elizabeth Mary,
married Hugh JohnstoneGertrude Annie, married
George Tokomauri HimonaWinifred,
married Emmett FlintElsie May,
married Eric HollymanJames Henry,
married JosephineDoreen,
married Lennie Jackson