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Gourock + Inverkip

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GSD4ME | 17:35 Thu 08th Dec 2011 | History
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Hopefully someone out there may know the answer to this!
I am doing my family tree and my great-grandfather was a wine+spirit merchant (publican) in the Gourock area in the late 1800's.
According to the 1891 census I have found, he lived at 9 Kempock Place and I believe that it states that this is in Inverkip. However, I can find *no* trace of a Kempock Place in Inverkip - however, there is one in Gourock (I have even found a photograph from the 1860's of it).
Q: Does anyone know if there *was* a Kempock Place in Inverkip that may no longer exist? Or am I reading the census form slightly wrongly - the civil parish is stated as being Inverkip, whereas the ecclesiastical parish is Gourock, the latter town being larger than the former so I would have expected the civil parish to be Gourock as well, if that is indeed where they stayed, as opposed to being stated as Inverkip
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Inverkip, a village and parish also known as Innerkip, was made a burgh of barony before the Act of Union in 1707, with the parish containing all of Gourock, Wemyss Bay, Skelmorlie and part of Greenock.
18:16 Thu 08th Dec 2011
Looking at google maps for Kempock Place, Inverkip, and also Kempock Place, Gourock, these are the same street being within 100 yards of each other.

http://www.google.co....e917&biw=1024&bih=675

Seems to be the same street to me though!
Inverkip, a village and parish also known as Innerkip, was made a burgh of barony before the Act of Union in 1707, with the parish containing all of Gourock, Wemyss Bay, Skelmorlie and part of Greenock.
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boxtops

Inverkip and Gourock are at least 2 miles apart!
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Have accepted aBerrant's answer as a Google search of the facts (plus a couple of intuitive guesses) confirmed this fact!

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