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From: "Susie Zada" <>
Subject: AHRR - KEMP and WILSON families - family records
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 06:13:27 +1100

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RECORD #56 OF 57
RECORD TITLE Kemp and Wilson families: family records
DATE RANGE c1819-1980s
SERIES Euphemia Ellen Kemp (nee Simson): photographs, mainly
portraits,of family, Geelong residents and friends, c1870
1883 (2 vols). Euphemia Ellen Kemp (nee Simson): diaries
documenting her home life and social activities as a
single and, later, married woman in Geelong, Vic., and
Brisbane, Qld, 1880-1889 (2 vols). Euphemia Ellen Kemp
(nee Simson): autograph album 1870-1884 with additions by
her daughter Alice Kemp 1905-1910 (1 vol.). Alison
Euphemia Grant Lipp: research material on family history
of descendants of William Borrodaile Wilson compiled
1980s (18 files).
HISTORICAL CONTEXT Euphemia Ellen was one of the seven children of the Rev.
Charles Simson (d.1873) and Mary Ann Wilson (d.1866).
After Simson retired from the Presbyterian Ministry in
Tasmania, the family settled first at Roseneath on the
Glenelg River, and later at Geelong. In 1882 Euphemia
Ellen married Joseph Kemp, a merchant and one time
secretary of the Stock Exchange of Melbourne.
NAMES Wilson, William Borrodaile; Kemp, Alice; Kemp, Euphemia
Ellen (nee Simson); Grant Lipp, Alison Euphemia
PLACES Geelong, Vic.; Roseneath, Vic.; Lorne, Vic.; Brisbane
DESCRIPTORS diaries and journals - women; recreation; holidays;
courtship; women - home duties; motherhood
REFERENCES Euphemia Ellen Simson: Alexander Henderson, Early Pioneer
Families of Victoria and Riverina: a genealogical and
biographical record, Melbourne, 1936. p.68.
ACCESS Restricted access: contact Historic Records Office,
National Library of Australia

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