Australian Gemptons

The link below contains information obtained from the Australian Electoral Rolls. These Electoral Rolls do not contain information of the children of families who had not attained the age to vote.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz--Yx_2PNEMeFUyX0NtVFBqUlk/view?usp=sharin

Taken from the document - "Origin of the Family Name" - by Ted Richards

Migration

One interesting feature of the 19^th century records is the number of marriages between Gampton (etc.) men and girls from distant parts of the country. These Gamptons may not have had a girl in every port, but there was a tendency to select their wives from distant communities, maybe in ports where their ships sheltered from a storm; most men of the time chose their wives from their own or the next village.Until about 1800, nearly all the members of the clan had spent their lives in the vicinity of Brixham or in neighbouring parishes. Some, no doubt, actually lived in Galmpton.

Starting in the 19^th century members of the clan started to roam further and further from Brixham. While many other people migrated to London, members of the GAMPTON clan crept round the coast. This was to be expected since many were fishermen. As their ships grew larger and they themselves more adventurous, they sailed further afield. As the century progressed, colonies were established further and further along to English coast. Some of these are probably now extinct (no census entries) but the colony on the Humber Estuary at Caistor, Grimsby, Hull and Sculcoates is thriving to this day. These are all GEMPTONs.

Image 1.

The Hull/Yorkshire link of the family starts to separate from the Brixham link with the sons of John Gempton & Agnes Boone. John Gempton (b.1785) married Mary Cross (b.1785) in Brixham in 1807 - William Gempton (b.1792) married Joanna Cook (b.1794)in Dover, Kent in 1815.

Image 2.

Thomas Samuel Gempton (b 1821) - Although born in Dover, he returns to his father’s home (Brixham) where he marries in 1842 (note - his wife is listed as Elizabeth Wylie & Elizabeth Betsy Cayn/Cane but is believed to be the same person) ; his first two children (Eliza 1842, Samuel 1844) are born in Brixham. Then in about 1844 he moves to Ramsgate, Kent in the Isle of Thanet where his next two children are born. Finally, in about 1848 he moves to Hull. He remains in Hull/Sculcoates till his death in 1906. It is possible that Thomas Samuel was the founder member of the colony of Gemptons who have resided on the Humber estuary since the 1840's, but he was a tailor and several of the Humberside people were fishermen or owned boats.

Emigration to Australia from the Hull branch of the family began with some of the children of Alfred William Gempton (1899-1974) and Ethel May Foster (1894-1985).These parents eventually emigrate to Australia, showing in the 1972 census and eventually both dying there.

Family of Alfred William Gempton (1922-1996)

In 1952 Alfred took his wife, Elizabeth and 2 young children, Pamela & Shaun, to Australia aboard the ship RANCHI.

Note:- Shaun Gempton emigrated from Australia to Canada in 1965, at the age of 18, where he now lives with his family.

Family of Kenneth Gempton (1935-2014)