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Jupp Newsletter

ISSUE 1
DECEMBER 2000

Contents:

Welcome
The Mystery of Vigand Jupp
1865 London Trade Directory
K9 Jupp
Acknowledgements

Welcome

Welcome to the first quarterly Jupp Newsletter.

Although still in its early stages, the Jupp Surname Resource Centre has already attracted plenty of interest. As researchers leave their details, submit their descendant reports, or Jupp records, these will be added to the site in due course to hopefully build up an impressive home for the Jupp name.

The purpose of this newsletter is to bring you up to date with any new stuff you may have missed on the site, any interesting genealogy news and Jupp stories that you may wish to share.

One of the hopes of this site is to bring together lost cousins, so it was especially nice to hear from Joan Janswig. (story below)

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The Mystery of Vigand Jupp by Joan N Janswig

They said he had disappeared completely. No trace was ever found of him. That is what my mother told me about her uncle, Vigand Jupp.

Vigand was the youngest brother of her father, my granddad, David Jupp. My granddad immigrated to Canada in the early 1900's in search of work. He was a stone cutter and after arriving in Canada heard that there was work in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He came to the states and after sending enough money to Scotland for their passage, my granny left Glasgow in July 1909m aboard the SS Caledonia along with their three children, ages 7, 5 and 2 years old. Granny kept the memory of Scotland and the family left there very much alive in the minds of her children, and thus the stories were passed down to my generation. Many times I wondered and speculated about what could have happened to Vigand, but I never expected to find out.

The family here thought that he disappeared as a young man and conjectured that he might have been shanghaied to serve aboard a ship. In doing my genealogical research, I located a second cousin, a granddaughter of my granddad's brother Joseph who had remained in Scotland. I corresponded with her and was eventually able to visit her in Dundee, the city of my granddad's birth. She had also heard of Vigand's disappearance, but the story she heard was that Vigand, a blond, blue eyed child, was thought to have been 'kidnapped by the gypsies'. As one of the first steps in gathering my genealogical data, I had the Scottish Ancestry Research Society do some investigating for me. They supplied me with Vigand's date of birth as 18th June 1884, in Dundee, Scotland. But, they had searched the records all the way up to 1996 and found no record in Scotland of a marriage or death for Vigand Jupp. This did seem to be a dead end and all of the information I would ever be able to find on him.

Another Jupp researcher told me of the Jupp Researchers web page that Mark Gooch had set up. Who knows, I thought, I may find some more of my family this way so posted the information on my great-grandparents, Joseph Jupp and Hannah Hallam and their children. You can imagine my surprise and amazement when I received e-mail shortly thereafter from Ian Jupp stating that he thought the Vigand Jupp I listed was his grandfather. Vigand is not a common name and as the name, date and place of birth matched, we have determined that we are indeed second cousins. Also, Vigand settled in the part of England where our 2nd great-grandparents were originally from. Ian did not know he had any family on his paternal grandfather's side, but now he has a large extended family.

Since his first inquiry on 3rd October 2000, we have been getting to know each other and sharing information on our branches of the Jupp family via e-mail. We also may eventually have a chance to meet in person. Part of the mystery of Vigand has been answered. We still do not know why he left home, or why his family never heard anymore about him, but we do know that he lived a full life until the age of 63 and left at least one living descendant.

Thanks to the Internet, and to Mark, for providing the means for Ian and me to connect our branches of the family. How thrilled my mother and my granny and granddad would be to know that Vigand survived and had a family.

Submitted by Joan N Janswig, grandniece of Vigand Jupp

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1865 London Trade Directory

In each issue I hope to share some interesting Jupp resource material. I’m kicking off with the 1865 London Trade Directory, an old day ‘Yellow pages’ of people in trade.
This is how they actually appear alphabetically in trade order.

TRADE NAME ADDRESS

Brass Founder Jupp, Joseph 21 New Chas. St. City Rd EC

Butcher Jupp, Thos. 8 Leigh St. Burton Crescent WC

Butcher Jupp, Thos. 12 Whittington Pl. Up. Hol N

Greengrocer Jupp, Mrs. Charlte. 20 Up. Tachbrk. St SW

Grindery Dealer Jupp, John 2 Peter Street, Soho W

Hatters (Retail) Jupp & Son 96 New Bond Street W

Tailors/Outfitters Jupp, John 113 Fenchurch Street EC

Timber Merchant Jupp, Josiah 4 Longfellow Rd. E, Mile End Rd E, & Bow Common E

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K9 Jupp

Meet 'Jupp', the Cape Girardeau, Missouri, US police dog.

Officer Dennis Horn is Jupp's handler with the K9 unit.

He tells me that his dog Jupp, a German Shepherd, came from Czechoslovakia,

already with the name. He has been working with Dennis for 6 years now

and is a very smart dog. He is trained in narcotics detection, tracking,

building searches, and protection. Any thoughts about the Czech connection?

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks go out in this 1st issue to Louise Jupp in Sussex, England.
She has shown such enthusiasm and interest, and has helped transcribe some GRO indexes for the site.

If you would like to show your support, however little please contact me. I would especially like to hear from anyone with an interesting tale to tell or Jupp records to share.

Contact me at genealogy1@sprignall.freeserve.co.uk

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