James Osman and Mary Bempkins (Bamkin)

 

The American Bempkins family are believed to be all related.. It is known that Bempkins are descended from a Benjamin Bamkin/Bempkins from Tredegar in South Wales.

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James Osman BEMPKINS1393 born 8th March 1887 to Benjamin and Harriet

Married

Mary Sanders 1386

b. Plymouth 1888

d. 1960

Had Thelma Bempkins m. Kenneth Robert Moules from Honesdale PA (Pennsylvania)

They had twin sons Kenneth and Keith.

Keith married Lucille Dering in 1958 and they had Kenneth, Keith Jnr (who married Charlene Beattys and had 3 children) and Lisa (who married David Dobbs and they have two children).

Ken (the twin) married Geraldine Serhan2304 and they had Kenneth Robert II (who married Katherine), David Allen (married Pamela) and Todd Christopher.

Thelma died in 1983, Kenneth Snr in 1960

Had Benjamin Bempkins born 1914, died 1920 from Meningitus

James Bempkins

b. 2nd May 1925. He took part in the Normandy Invasion, the conquest of France and Belgium and the Battle of the Bulge, came through unscathed Married Doris Smith. 2 Children (Scott Bempkins and J.)

Mary Bempkins

m. Victor A. Johnson of Clifton, New Jersey and had Barbara and Bruce

Robert Bempkins

b. 2nd April 1922. m. Eleanor Cross. d. 1967.

Also served in WW2 in the UK

Died 1957

Much more is known about James and Doris's descendants in Edwardsville, New York and Massachusetts and about Kenneth and Thelma Moules' grandchildren.

 

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 Last updated Jan 2005

Other names we are interested in include Allwork, Bamkin, Craythorne, Cumnerlidge