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-- that Radalphus (Ralph, Ralf) De Campis (Kempe) had a
brother named Roger?
-- the Kemp-Welch family line once owned the Schwepp Soda
Company? (Can you say Dr.Pepper? The Schwepp's Company owned the rights to Dr. Pepper,selling those rights to an up and coming
company called Coca-Cola.)
-- a Kempe married Edward Burne-Jones, the illustrious painter?
-- Lucy Kemp-Welch was a renowned painter in her own right?
-- Radalphus (Ralf, Ralph) Kempe (De Campis) had three known sons so far? Fathering not just John (founder of the
Olantigh Kempe's), but also Thomas, and William (founder of the Norfolk,Suffolk Kempe's) ?
-- it looks quite possible that the Kempe line originated in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine region of France/Germany
in the 1100's?
-- John Kempe, son of Alan Kempe and Isabella Hastings, married Margaret (Marjory) Burnham, author of "The Book of
Margery Kempe"? One of the earliest known autobiographies ever written?
-- Lady Eleanor Browne Kempe, wife of Sir William Kempe II, was cousin to Jane Browne, daughter of Matthew Browne
and Jane Vincent,married to Sir Baron Robert Kemp of the Gissing Kemp's ? Tying together yet another familial connection ?
-- That there were Kempes living at the Battle Abbey right after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ? Galfrid Kempe for
instance. Radalphus himself resided in the Abbey in 1283.
-- There are eight Governors in the family history.
-- There were twenty-eight individuals in the family history beheaded between 1326-1572
-- There were eight known indivduals convicted of witchcraft,including Reecca Towne Nurse who was hung on 19 Jul
1691 Gallows Hill , Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, and Ursula (Urseley) Kempe who was murdered in 1582 in Saint Osyth , Essex,
England.
-- Robert (aka; Richard)(born 1567 Gissing, Norfolk, England)
Kempe's son Richard (1600) was Governor of The Virginia Colony ?
-- George Durant Kemp-Welch married Lady Diana Lucy Baldwin,
cousin to Rudyard Kipling (author of the Jungle Book), and daughter of England's three time Prime Minister Stanely Baldwin?
-- George Durant Kemp-Welch was also Uncle to Sir John Kemp-Welch
former President of The London Stock Exchange?
-- The Kemp's of Poole Dorset owned over forty ships, sailing
merchandise from England to ports such as Newfoundland, Portugal, Ireland, Australia, and the West Indies?
-- there are 41 various Kings in the family history, including
those who ruled England, Ireland, Scotland, and others?
-- there are over sixty individuals entitled to have "Sir"
in their name, being knighted in the family tree?
-- that Sarah Gosse, who married George Kempe I (1756), was aunt
to the naturalist author Phillip Gosse?
--Alfred Kemp (1814-1902) while serving in the US Calvary
Civil War 7th Cavalry, Company F, was injured in Gettysburg. (1883 Pensioners on the Roll for Michigan Certificate Number:
49977 Post Office: Hubbardston Cause:sabre wd. Of head and neck). Alfred , it was said, told his cousin of his wound, "I had
been knocked from my horse, and while lying on the ground, a Confederate soldier slashed down with his sabre, and its point
cut through my skull over the temple region, but did not reach my brain." (Kemp Familes, G.Ward Kemp .1939. pg.56).
--Marie Antionette Pratt (1848- 1900?) who was married
to George Kemp III, was grand neice of Jared Pratt, founder of the great Pratt Family lineage(see>http://jared.pratt-family.org/).
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The Kemp lines have had an extensive history. Intermarrying with such families as : Kipling,
Chaucer, Plantagenets, Percy, Gosse, Curzon, Beaumonts, Dudleys, Eastmans?
Eleanor Browne, who married Sir William Kempe II, was the 12th great granddaughter of
Henry I "Beauclerc" King of ENGLAND. There were also quite a few archbishops in the family, many assume there was only one, John
Kempe Archbishop of Canterbury.
Another little tidbit is that there are now over sixty knights in the family history.
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George Kemp II, 1784-1863, wife Elizabeth MILLER 1784-1863,
immigrated to America 1st Sept
1828 with all children except the two
oldest. They landed in New York. Passage took six weeks. Travelled by
the old
Erie Canal from Albany to Rochester.. Lived in Groveland,
Livingston Co.,NY., for a number of years. Father, mother, and
four
brothers moved to Augusta, Michigan, 1842. Thier oldest son George
was studying to become a physician in England,
and after his parents
emigrated to America, he followed a few years later and settled near
them at Augusta, Michigan.
When he was over 50 he married Antoinette
Pratt, who was 19 at the time...he died around 1883 in August.
-- That Presidents such as George Bush (and family) are
in your family line? So are other past presidents! (See photos page!)
-- there were at least four Kemps who rode under General
George Armstrong Custer, with the Seventh Calvary?
-- General George Armstrong Custer's wife, Elizabeth Clift
BACON, was cousin of Grace Viola BACON. Grace was married to Victor Alfred Kemp. Yes they were In-Laws! And Alfred's father,
Frederick, was one of the Kemps who served in the union army from 1863-1865 under Custer. As did Frederick's father,
Alfred Kemp ( US Calvary Civil War 7th Cavalry, Company F).
--Elizabeth "Bessie" Mary Cooper (1888-1972 ) , who was
married to James Welsh Kemp, was a descendant of George Eastman, founder of Eastman-Kodak, through her mother Isabell Eastman.
-- More on: Elizabeth "Bessie" Mary Cooper (1888-1972 )
, who was married to James Welsh Kemp. Bessie was a seventh great granddaughter of Rebecca (Towne) Nurse who was falsely accused
of witchcraft in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, and hung as a witch in 1691 in Gallows Hill , Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
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Martin Kemp 1723-1772 married Mary Welch 1735-1805. Mary was 4th great
graddaughter of John KNOX 1505-1572.
John KNOX was born a farmer in Haddington. Knox died about age 58 in 1572. His
first wife's brother was an ancestor of the present Queen. He studied at St. Andrews and was ordained a priest at about 25
years of age. He did not graduate as a Master of Arts however, probably because of an oath against "Lollardism" which graduates
had to take.
He tutored the children of gentlemen in East Lothian. John Knox was converted to Protestantism by the influence
of the preaching of Thomas William. Because of persecution he moved from place to place. Protestants urged him to preach publicly.
John Knox committed himself a Protestant by accompanying George Wishart. After Wishart's death he joined the Protestants in
St. Andrews Castle. After defeat by the French, Knox rowed in French galleys for 19 months eventually being released through
the
intervention of the English Government in 1552.
Knox served as a parish minister in Berwick from 1549-1551 where
he earned a reputation as a Puritan insisting on a form of service solely from scriptural bases. Knox declined the offer of
the bishopric of Rochester, apparently not because of an objection to Episcopacy, but the pride generated in one holding that
office. At the accession of Queen Mary, he went to the Continent where he was
minister to congregations of English refugees
at Dieppe, Geneva, and Frankfurt. In late 1555 and early 1556 he was in Scotland again and encouraged Scots to separate from
the Roman Church.
John Knox became minister of Edinburgh in July 1559.
Knox's preaching is credited with a large influence behind Parliament's passing of an act abolishing Papal jurisdiction and
approving the Confession of faith as a basis for belief in Scotland. That same year, Knox participated in the preparation
of two other documents besides the
Confession of Faith. They were:
- The First Book of Discipline in which he covered
the reform of the
Church, advocated compulsory education through university level, and
proposed how the church should
help the poor. This work was never
passed into law by Parliament.
- The Book of Common Order which became the worship
book for the Church of Scotland., it was written in Frankfurt, read in Geneva, and implemented in Scotland.Also, The Scots
Confession was written by John Knox and five colleagues in 1560 at the conclusion of the Scottish Civil War at the behest
of parliament. Due to Knox, the Church of Scotland was Calvinist rather than Anglican during his lifetime; and Presbyterian
rather than Episcopal after his death.
 
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