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The largest number of Cumpston descendants originated among the bleak fells of Westmorland. This book tells the story of one branch who found their way to the port of Kingston upon Hull in the mid-eighteenth century and made their livelihoods in trades associat
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The largest number of Cumpston descendants originated among the bleak fells of Westmorland. This book tells the story of one branch who found their way to the port of Kingston upon Hull in the mid-eighteenth century and made their livelihoods in trades associated with the sea. It charts the development of the port and the fortunes (and misfortunes) of them as Humber pilots, coopers, block and tackle-makers, and even a poet with aristocratic connections who was convicted of attempted manslaughter.
Principally it focuses on a family of master mariners of adventurous spirit who plied their trade around the world. Some made their lives in the new Commonwealth of Australia where they came to distinguish themselves in the arts, public health, the law and twentieth-century Antarctic exploration.
This is a stirring tale based on careful and detailed genealogical research undertaken over many years which took the author across the Southern Ocean on expedition to the huts of Scott and Shackleton
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