A "navvy" (abbrev. of "navigator") was a person employed to do drudgery or menial work, paricularly in the building trade; possibly from assocoation with the "navigation canals" for which many were employed in cutting the channels. Joan. Honeycutt, Linda wrote: > Thanks Steven. Have been to your site in the past and its has been a > great help. Your info on William in 1891 also confirms what other's > have thought as well. Any idea what a Navvy was? > Thanks > Linda > > -----Original Message----- > From: bedford-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bedford-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of bedford-request@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:01 AM > To: bedford@rootsweb.com > Subject: BEDFORD Digest, Vol 5, Issue 63 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Kimpton / Kempton (Honeycutt, Linda) > 2. Re: Kimpton / Kempton (Steven Gibbs) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:32:31 -0400 > From: "Honeycutt, Linda" <lhoneycutt@alexandercountync.gov> > Subject: [BDF] Kimpton / Kempton > To: <BEDFORD@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: > > <10374F981E5A5B44BF01CE1F407F7EAB02808E12@mailsvr01.Alexander_co.local> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi, > I'm new to this board and am looking for information for my GG > Grandfather William Alfred Kempton born 1852 in Bedfordshire. > Originally the surname was spelled Kimpton but for whatever reason he > changed it to Kempton. He married Sarah Betts about 1872 and had > several children Sarah Matilda, William Arthur, Sophia Grace, Emily > Jane, James. Supposedly there are two additional children Tom born 1882 > and Eliza Maud born 1885. I've not been able to confirm either of these > births as being the children of William and Sarah - can anyone help with > that? > Secondly sometime between 1885 and 1887 Sarah left William taking up > with Alfred George Clayton. Their first daughter was born in 1887. As > to what happened to William is unknown. I've found two census records > in 1891 for a William born 1852 in Bedfordshire - one with a wife Ann > and the other with a wife Louisa. According to early census records > William was an "Ag Labourer" and these two census records list him as a > Boot Repairer and a Navvy. When daughter Emily Jane married in 1906 she > listed her father as being a Construction Foreman so obviously he was > still living at that time. (Her father in law was listed as deceased). > Anyone have any idea's as to where to go from here in locating the > correct records and or death entry for William. > > Thank you, > Linda > > Confidentiality Notice: > > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information > intended solely for the use of the addressee. If the reader of this > message is not the intended recipient, any distribution, copying, or use > of this e-mail or its attachments is prohibited. If you received this > message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and > delete this message and any copies. Thank you. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:30:32 -0000 > From: "Steven Gibbs" <steven@sgibbs1.freeserve.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [BDF] Kimpton / Kempton > To: <bedford@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <8D3F3816568948A5ADCE485ED581169A@POWERPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hello Linda, > > This family was from Great Barford. Partial transcripts of Great > Barford > census returns and parish registers can be found on my website at > http://www.sgibbs1.freeserve.co.uk/gtbarford/ > > For what it's worth, I'm almost certain that the correct 1891 census > record > is the one where William is in Tottenham, as a navvy. (The Bedford boot > > repairer can also be found in 1881 and marries in 1885 which rules him > out.) > > Steven > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> Hi, >> I'm new to this board and am looking for information for my GG >> Grandfather William Alfred Kempton born 1852 in Bedfordshire. >> > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the BEDFORD list administrator, send an email to > BEDFORD-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the BEDFORD mailing list, send an email to > BEDFORD@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEDFORD-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of BEDFORD Digest, Vol 5, Issue 63 > ************************************** > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEDFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >