James(Pop) & Kate
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Pop & Katie Knappett
Pop - born James Knappett 9 July 1883 in West Ham, London
Married Catherine Jessie Connor on 9 September 1906 at St George the martyr, Southwark
(born 13 November 1877)
Children:
James Richard Charles 13 December 1907 - 4 March 1991
Alice 1 September 1911 - 1 March 1914
Terrence Henry 26 February 1913 - 26 October 1977

Pop died on 1 March 1951 in Southampton
Katie died 18 May 1967
Pop was born in London at 49 Marcus Street, West Ham.

Pop's father is Charles Knappett who is shown as a chemical labourer on Pop's birth certificate and Jerimiah Charles a deceased chemist on Pop & Kate's wedding certificate.

In 1901 Pop was living at 32 Oakfield Road, East Ham with his mum (shown as Head of house) and siblings:
Samuel (26) - a varnish warehouseman,
Samuel died in WW2 and is recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves site as a civilian casualty. He owned a hardware store in East Ham and was in his garden as the RAF were attempting to shoot down a doodlebug.
Elizabeth (23) - Shirt and Collar ironer,
Emma (22) - Cotton driver
Ada (11).

Kate lived with her mother (Alice) and appears in the 1881 census as living at 34 Nelson Street, Bermondsey, London. By 1901 she was living at 250 Boro High Street, West Southwark, working as a kitchen maid, with her mum shown as a 43 year old widow employed as a maker of boys caps. Her brother Jmaes R was a waiter.

On the wedding certificate Pop & Kate were both living at 34 Queens Buildings, Southwark Bridge Road. Kate's father was shown to be James Richard Connor (deceased)

Pop and Katie's daughter Alice died aged 2 in Romford, Essex in 1914.

He was a painter and maintenance man for British American Tobacco awhen he moved with them to Southampton in the mid 1920’s.
At that time they were living in Peabody Buildings near Waterloo station.
Katie was a milliner and also worked as a cook.
Both sons joined British American Tobacco in Southampton and worked there all their working lives apart from the war years.