scroll down. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Kemp" <TKemp@Godfrey.org> To: "Neil & Marg Andrews" <nandrews@caloundra.net> Cc: <IRL-CAVAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-CAVAN] RE: KEMP, Ship Adament > At Friday, 16 January 2004, "Neil & Marg Andrews" <nandrews@caloundra. > net> wrote: > > >Hi Cavan friends. > >Are there any records of Irish immigrants leaving Ireland for Australia? > >I have 2 sisters and a brother KEMP departing in 1863 on 'Adamant' > >and then unrelated 2 brothers KEMP departing 1864 on Adamant. > >From whence would they leave County Cavan? > >It's tough having one Irish family to research but all my eggs are > >in the one basket for this family as they intermarried. > >I have this vague hope of finding that their departure records > >reveal their whole history, but even a little would help! > >The two families lived within walking distance of each other in > >Castleterra and Urney, but were said to be unrelated. > >Yeah??? > >Marg A. > >nandrews@caloundra.net > > > > Hi. Which Kemp brothers/sisters are you looking for? > I have alot of material on these lines. > > The Kemp's of Cavan are from East Lothian, Scotland. > > Tom > > Thomas Jay Kemp > Godfrey Memorial Library > 134 Newfield Street > Middletown, CT 06457-2534 > > Phone: 860-346-4375 > Fax: 860-347-9874 > Email: TKemp@Godfrey.org > Web site: http://www.godfrey.org Hi Tom, We have communicated before and I will send a copy of my last letter in case it missed you somehow. I haven't tried looking in Scotland - I think both lots of my Kemps were farmers possibly in flax in first half 1800. Is it any use looking for them born in Scotland then, or was their migration to Co.Cavan earlier than that? Marg A. nandrews@caloundra.net PS. All my original Kemps arrived in South Australia and then went to Victoria. Only later and current ones came to Queensland.