Staindrop 1911 (Bradford)
Eleven households in the 1911 census contained descendants of Robert and Philip Kipling, the sons of Joshua Kipling of Staindrop and Barnard Castle (see “Staindrop 1911”).
Philip Kipling
Philip ,------'------¬ Thomas Lionel ,------'------¬ |------¬ Philip Thomas Lionel Francis (#305) dsp | George |------,------,------¬ |------,------¬ | Thomas =Carrie William Annie Arthur Lionel William Thomas Joseph dsp (#373) (#300) #303 (#296) USA USA USA Mountain | | (#298) Arthur Harold | Francis George Robert ,------,------'------,------,------,------¬ William Philip Joshua Joseph Benjamin Robert Ackroyd | | Ackroyd dsp dsp dsp ,------'------¬ |------¬ Australia William Robert Edmund William USA | Burdett Rayner | | dsp (#304) (#302) ,------| ,------|------,------¬ |------,------¬ Albert Robert Robert Ernest Frederick William William Thomas Edmund USA USA USA USA dsp (#331) Rayner dsp Burdett = Ada (#383) dsmp? (#302) dsmp? (#297)
Philip, a widower, moved to Bradford sometime after 1814, with sons Thomas and Lionel. He remarried in 1822.
Bradford Parish Church
Wife Ann may have died in 1841.
Bowling Lane, Bradford. 1841
Philip himself died in 1861.
St Marks, Low Moor, Bradford. 1861
Thomas Kipling
Calverley, St Wilfreds 1830.
Bowling Lane 1841
Bradford Observer - Thursday 11 March 1847
Bradford 1851
Bradford Observer - Thursday 15 May 1856
Wakefield Gaol, Yorkshire: register of prisoners
Bradford Observer - Thursday 04 June 1857
Bradford Observer - Thursday 24 December 1857
Thomas remarried in 1864.
Bradford Observer - Thursday 26 May 1864
Leeds Road, Bradford. 1871
Tower Street, Eccleshill, Bradford. 1881
Thomas died in 1886 and was buried in Undercliffe cemetery.
Philip
1871. Birksland St., Bradford
Birk Street, Bradford. 1881 (incorrectly transcribed ages)
Leeds Times - Saturday 24 November 1888
Birk Street, Bradford.1891
Furnace Street, Bradford. 1901
(#305)
Philip died in 1915.
(a) Thomas
Thomas married Caroline Grimmer at Sculcoats, Hull in 1897.
1901 Sculcoats, Hull.
Thomas was a fisherman and died in Iceland in 1908.
Monday 23 November 1908 , Hull Daily Mail
Belfast Telegraph - Monday 30 November 1908
(#373)
Caroline died in Hull in 1946.
(b) William
William married Martha Rhodes in 1895.
Heaton St, Bowling, Bradford 1901
(#300)
Bradford. 1939
William died in 1942 and Martha in 1951. Arthur died in Bradford in 1974.
(c) Arthur
Arthur married Lizzie Enderby in 1908.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Laisterdyke, 1910
(#296)
Arthur died in 1914.
Campbell St, Bradford. 1939
Lizzie died in 1951 and Harold in 1970.
(d) Annie
1901 Malvern St,. Bradford.
(#303) 1911 Exeter St,. Bradford
1939 Exeter St,. Bradford
Annie died in 1945.
Thomas
Wilfred Street, Bradford. 1881
Lionel Kipling
Shipley St Paul 1832
Sutcliffe Houses, Bradford, 1841 (I do not know who Peter Kipling (?) is)
Bradford 1851
Lionel died in March 1852.
Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 27 March 1852
A son, Francis George, was born posthumously in May.
Daughter Isabella died in 1855.
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Bradford Observer - Thursday 17 May 1855
Widow Mary married Joseph Mountain in 1859.
Bowling Back Lane. 1861(William is probably a mistake for Lionel)
Bowling Back Lane. 1871
Lionel
Lionel married Ellen Broadbent in 1861. A son Lionel was born in 1862 but only baptised in May 1865.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bradford
Later that year Lionel himself was baptised, along with younger children Willie and Isabelle.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bradford
1871 Mount Street, Bradford
1881 Sticker Lane, Bowling
St John Bowling 1884.
Lionel died in 1884, and in 1890, widow Ellen, with sons Lionel, William and Thomas, all emigrated to the USA. Lionel and William arriving on the Ohio from Liverpool in April.
1900 Chicopee City, Hampden Mass.
Francis George
(Francis) George married in 1872.
He joined the police in 1877, but was dismissed the following year (no reason is given).
West Riding Constabulary, 1875-1877 Examination Book J
Bradford Daily Telegraph - Saturday 25 September 1880
Sticker Lane, Bradford. 1881
In 1887, George was accused – and acquitted - of rape.
Wakefield Prison records
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 03 May 1887
Mount Street, Bradford 1891
Rochester St, Bradford. 1901.
George died in 1906 and in 1911 Louisa was living with son Joseph Mountain Kipling (#298).
Louisa died in 1914.
(a) Joseph Mountain Kipling
Joseph married in 1900
Back Tamworth, St. Laisterdyke. 1901
St Mary, Laisterdyke.
Pudsey. 1939
Mayo Grove, Bradford. 1939
Son Frank George died in 1995 at Dewsbury.
Robert Kipling
Robert ,------,------'------,------,------,------¬ William Philip Joshua Joseph Benjamin Robert Ackroyd | | Ackroyd dsp dsp dsp ,------'------¬ |------¬ Australia William Robert Edmund William USA | Burdett Rayner | | dsp (#304) (#302) ,------| ,------|------,------¬ |------,------¬ Albert Robert Robert Ernest Frederick William William Thomas Edmund USA USA USA USA dsp (#331) Rayner dsp Burdett = Ada (#383) dsmp? (#302) dsmp? (#297)
Robert married in Bradford in 1818.
Bradford Parish Church, 1826
Bradford Parish Church, 1832
Bradford Parish Church, 1836
1841 Reform Street, Bradford.
Youngest son Robert died in childhood.
Daughter Isabella married the next year.
Isabella and her husband later moved to America
1860; Broadalbin, Fulton County. NY.
1851Reform Street, Bradford
Son William Ackroyd died in 1853 and wife Sarah in 1858
Bradford Parish Church, 1858
1861 Reform Street, Bradford
Son Benjamin died in 1866.
Bradford Observer - Thursday 22 March 1866
1871 Turk Street, Bradford
Robert died in 1876.
Leeds Times, 21 October 1876
Philip Kipling
Sons William and Robert were born in 1842 and 1844.
Bradford 1851
Maria died in 1860.
Bradford Observer - Thursday 19 January 1860
Mill Street, Bradford 1861
Philip remarried later that year.
1871.Maud Street, Bradford.
1881 Mulgrave Street, Bradford
1891 Mark Street, Bowling, Bradford
Philip died in 1896, and appears at that time to have been a Quaker.
Annual Monitor of the Society of Friends 1896
He was buried in Area 24 at Undercliffe cemetery.
Area 24, showing Quaker graves in foreground.
William
William married in 1860.
Acre Street, Bradford. 1861
Sons Albert and Robert were born in 1862 and 1864.
Otley, 1871
William and his family emigrated to the USA in 1879. Son Robert married Alice Tansey, also from Bradford, in 1885. Son Albert enlisted in the US Navy in 1883, albeit understating his age by several years (it having being overstated in the 1871 census).
It was not long before he caught a venereal disease:
The Appendix shows, in gruesome detail, how his case progressed.
It seems likely that he died in 1913.
Shipley Times and Express - Friday 29 August 1913
Jane died in 1897 and is buried in Mount Moriah cemetery, Philadelphia. William died in July 1900 and is buried at Glenwood Cemetery, Philadelphia. Son Robert and his family were recorded in the census that year (I haven’t found then in the 1880 census).
1900 Philadelphia, PA.
Robert
Robert married Elizabeth Batty in 1869.
Robert Court, Bradford. 1871
Frederick Street, Bradford. 1881
Robert Kipling in regalia of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
R Adolphus Street, Bradford. 1891
Adolphus Street, 1901,
Elizabeth died in 1901, Frederick died in 1902 and Robert in 1905. All were buried in Undercliffe cemetery. Robert’s death was rather nasty.
Leeds Mercury - Saturday 02 September 1905
(a) Robert
Robert emigrated to the USA in 1910.
Mary and son William followed in September, on the Campania.
They settled in Dunkirk, in Chatauqua County, NY, on the shore of Lake Erie.
3rd St., Dunkirk, Chatauqua, NY. 1915
Robert joined the Canadian Forces in 1917
The list of his tattoos is worth reading!
Margaret and the children moved to Canada in 1917.
Robert returned to Canada in 1919.
York, Ontario. 1921.
Mary Ann died in 1932 at York, Toronto, Ontario.
I have not been able to find a record of Robert’s death nor of son William’s subsequent fate. Frederick continued to live in Toronto until at least 1965.
Voters List, York, Broadview, Toronto. 1940.
Voters List, York, Toronto. 1965.
(b) Ernest
Ernest married in 1905.
He emigrated to the USA in early 1911, following Robert to Dunkirk.
Ada remained in the UK, where she was living with her father at the time of the census (#383)
She followed Ernest in July, accompanied by brother Willie.
Dunkirk, Chautauqua, NY. 1915
In January 1917, Ernest joined the Canadian Army.
1940. Averill Avenue, Rochester. NY
Ernest died in 1963. Ada died in 1976 at Chesapeake, VA. She was buried at Dunkirk NY.
(b) William
William was living in Shipley in 1911 (#331) but emigrated to the USA the same year.
William joined the Canadian Army in November 1914.
He returned from England on the Mauritania in 1919.
On census date (1 January) 1920, he was living with Ernest in Dunkirk.
Dunkirk, Chautauqua, NY. 1920
In May of that year, he travelled to the UK, returning in July.
He was living in New York City in 1930.
1930. Stebbins Avenue, The Bronx, NY.
He was registered for service in WW2.
He died in 1963, the same year as brother Ernest.
Joseph Ackroyd Kipling
Bradford Observer - Thursday 19 January 1854
Joseph then joined the army. ,
He was convicted of theft whilst in service.
Bradford Observer - Thursday 28 February 1856
He was ignominiously discharged from the army on health grounds, having contracted a venereal disease, no doubt from frequenting low brothels!
Further crimes followed and Joseph was transported to Australia in 1862, where he reportedly died in 1898 (see ’Transported!’).
Joshua
Joshua married Johanna Burdett in 1852.
Mill St, Bradford. 1861
Joshua died in 1863. Son William was only baptised in 1866.
Clayton West with High Hoyland, All Saints, 1866
In 1871, Johanna, Edmund and William were living next door to Philip Kipling, Joshua’s brother (q.v. above)
1871 Maud Street, Bradford.
Bradford Observer - Monday 16 March 1874
1881. Bengal Street, Bowling, Bradford (Clara was the new wife of William, see below)
Johanna died in 1889.
Edmund Burdett Kipling
Edmund married Elizabeth Dobson in 1890.
Leeds Times - Saturday 15 March 1890
Shipley Times and Express - Saturday 24 September 1898
They had no children. They lived in Bradford most of their lives, but were for some time at least in Derbyshire (the newspaper cutting above may explain why).
1901 The Cross, Coal Aston, Derbyshire
They were back in Bradford in 1911 (#304)
Edmund died in 1914.
William Rayner Kipling
William married in 1881.
Bradford parish church
St Stephen’s, Bradford 1885
Calcutta Street, Bradford. 1891 (all b. Bradford)
Calcutta Street, Bradford. 1901
Wife Clara died in 1895.
(#302)
William died in 1919.
(a) William Rayner (jnr)
(#299)
Birch Lane, Bradford. 1939 (WRK b April 1881)
William died in Bradford in 1963.
(b) Thomas
6 Surrey Grove, Bradford. 1939
(c) Edmund Burdett (jnr)
(#297)
Chryssell Rd., Kennington 1932
Edmund died in Bradford in 1955.
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