My interest is in the family of my great-grandparents William Joel Kemp and Mary Cannon Kemp (Cayzer).

William Joel Kemp and Mary Cannon Kemp (Cayzer) were both born in 1840. They married in 1861. They moved to Mountfield, Sussex between 1891 and 1901. WJK was Managing Director of The Gypsum Mine. He died in 1918. Mary Cannon Kemp (related to the Cayzers ship-owners) died in 1923.

They had 3 surviving sons and 5 daughters. The oldest son, William Cayzer Kemp, did not live with the rest of the family. I think he was resident in Kent. The other two sons were Louis Charles Kemp (LCK - my grandfather) and Harry Womersley Kemp.

LCK lived away from home, perhaps from about age 18. He married in 1900 in Stourbridge, had three children, left wife and children, and went to live in Mountfield in 1906. He served in WW1, and returned to the family home in 1919. He went into the gypsum mine business, built a house at Mountfield, left the business about 1933, then built a house at Broadland Wood, Brede, where he died in 1939.

LCK's brother Harry probably married and had a daughter.

The sisters were Mary Ann Birch Goodsell (m. 1903); Sarah Ann Langley Kemp - did not marry; Florence Louise Clark (m. 1895); Charlotte Jane Wallington (m. 1913); Ethel Amata Atkins (m. 1909). Charlotte had two daughters. Florence had a son.

I would like to find out more about all members of the family and their descendants.

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