Great
grand
parents
Gen.=+8		 Thomas   Kemsley
1694- www.kemsley.co.za/present_family_tree.htm 		                           
m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m.
Mary   Kemsley (nee ?)
1694- 		             
Grand
parents
Gen.=+7		 Thomas   Kemsley
b. 19 OCT 1735
d. 1781 8 children last one born just after Thomas died. 		m. Phoebe   Newham
b. ABT 1743 		  m.     m.     m.  
Parents
Gen.=+6		 Robert   Kemsley
b. 1769 2nd son, apprenticed to the Quarterman of a Shipwright in Chatham Dockyard. Lived in Gillingham. Had 11 children. 		m. Nancy   Smith   m.  
Husband,
wife &
siblings
Gen.=+5		 Robert 1804-1864 emigrated to South Africa in 1849 - see www.kemsley.co.za/present_family_tree.htm
William Kemsley
b. 1795
d. 1855
boat builder Eldest surviving son. Emigrated to South Africa with five/six children in 1843 in the ship 'Falcon'. Set up a boat building business on the Braaken River at Gravesend. Children: William Edward, Ann
G5, ID=6735 		m.
Anne Chambers
dau. of John and Ann Chambers, of Bregar House in Kent
G5, ID=6737
Children
Gen.=+4		 John Chambers
b. 1828
d. 16 APR 1894 Port Elizabeth Clerk to the Municipality (on marriage certif.). Mayor of P.E. in 1881. Children: John Chambers, William Crawford, James Crawford, Alfred Edward and three daughters. He later went into business with h
m.
Matha Crawford
Grand
children
Gen.=+3		 William Crawford 1854-13 APR 1935 had twelve children. Lived at 82 Cannon Street, Uitenhage. Partner in the family business 'Kemsleys' of Main Street, Port Elizabeth.
John Chambers 20 MAY 1855-7 MAR 1934 children: Edmund Kemsley d. 18 Nov 1915 John Joseph Kemsley 1878 Vivienne Inez Kemsley 1879 Kathleen Kemsley 1881 Leam Gladys Kemsley 1883 Lilian Frost Kemsley 1885-1959 Robert Bryant Kemsley 1890 Thelma Kemsley 1895 Millicent Kemsley 1895 Clifford Basil Kemsley 1899, m. R J Wait records.ancestry.com/John%20Chambers%20Kemsley_records.ashx?pid=94527934
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