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18th March 2022 Susan Morris Leave a Comment

The rescue of the Northern Belle and a BBC TV Programme

The story of the rescue of the crew of the Northern Belle and the loss of nine Margate men gets a wider audience.

12th March 2021 Susan Morris and Robert Bullock Leave a Comment

Avis Emptage and Harold Harding

Avis Emptage had a difficult and complicated life but in 1913 she married Harold Harding and could have hoped for years of happiness to come. Alas, it wasn’t to be.

12th February 2021 Susan Morris Leave a Comment

Child Migration

For more than 100 years, child migration schemes removed children from their families and friends and the places they knew. The children were sent to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Rhodesia. Supposedly to give children with poor lives a better chance, it was also a means of increasing the population of these still new countries. At least three of the children were Emptages.

29th January 2021 Susan Morris Leave a Comment

Ann Phoebe Emptage nee Hopkins

Ann Phoebe Hopkins was brought up in Canterbury, inland from the Kent coast. So the life she experienced in Margate after she married Alfred Burnett Emptage, a mariner and lifeboat man, was quite different from anything she had experienced previously or could even have imagined.

14th April 2018 David Emptage Leave a Comment

The Brigantine Sarah – A Gallant Rescue by the Margate Lifeboat

At a time of severe gales, in January 1871, the Brigatine Sarah, carrying coal, was aground on Margate Sands. The crew of the lifeboat Quiver and a local lugger Ocean went to the rescue.

3rd March 2017 David Emptage Leave a Comment

Frances Alice Emptage

Frances’ brother Alfred and sister Rosamond had emigrated to the USA in 1882 and 1884. In 1887, aged 16, Frances followed but rather than join her siblings in New York she travelled west to California. In 1890 a San Francisco newspaper published an article describing a rather difficult position she had got herself into.

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