Dorothy (Harris) Kempe (abt. 1570 - bef. 1626)

Born about 1570 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Kempe Esq. — married about 1596 in England

Descendants

Died before 29 Nov 1626 before about age 56 in England

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Dorothy Harris is in a trail badged by the Magna Carta Project to several surety barons (see text below).

Biography

Dorothy Harris was the daughter of Arthur Harris and his wife, Dorothy Waldegrave.^[1] Her date of birth is unknown, but is estimated to be about 1570.^[2]

Dorothy married about 1596 to Robert Kempe, Esq. of Gissing, Norfolk, son and heir of Richard Kempe, Esq. and Alice Cockerham.^[1] They had eight sons and three daughters.

• Robert, Knt., 1st Baronet, eldest son^[3] who married Jane Browne and had six children. Robert died 20 August 1647.^[1]
• John,^[1] second son.^[3]
• Richard, Esq., 3rd son,^[3] baptized in 1600 at Gissing, immigrated to Virginia and married Elizabeth ____ and had one daughter. Richard died shortly after 4 January 1650.^[1]
• Arthur, clerk,^[1] fourth son, baptized 1601 and died before 12 May 1645.^[3]
• Edmund, fifth son, born 1606,^[3] married Bridget _____ and had one son, Edmund. He died before September 1649.^[1]
• Edward, of Virginia,^[1] sixth son.^[3](see his profile - he likely settled in Massachusetts)
• Thomas,^[1] seventh son.^[3]
• Matthew^[1] not named in his father's will dated 11 November 1611 or the will of his mother, dated 30 March 1626.^[3]
• Dorothy,^[3] wife of William Jackman^[1]
• Elizabeth,^[3] wife of Sir William Kempe^[1]
• 3rd daughter, not named^[1]

Robert Kempe, Esq., died testate on 23 October 1612.^[1] Dorothy lived at the Manor House at Flordon after his death, where she died in 1626.^[4] Her will directed her burial near her husband, in the chapel in the church at Gissing.^[3]

Dorothy left a will written on 30 March 1626.^[3] It was proved 29 November 1626^[1] and names the following children: daughters Dorothy Kempe and Elizabeth Kempe, and sons Arthur, Edmund, Edward, Thomas, and Sir Robert and his wife Jane.^[3] Her will was witnessed by Edward Rouse and Thomas Kemp and its executors were Henry Bing and her cousin, Cleere Talbot.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14} Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011), vol. II, pages 468-470, KEMPE 16.
2. ↑ Lewis, Marlyn. Dorothy Harris, entry in "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" database (accessed 12 Dec 2019).
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13} Withington, Lothrop, "Virginia Gleanings in England." in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 1912), pp. 71-72, Virginia Historical Society, accessed online at JSTOR.org.
4. ↑ Hitchin-Kemp, Frederick, A General History of the Kemp and Kempe Families of Great Britain and her Colonies. section II, "The Kemp and Kempe Families of Norfolk and Suffolk", chapter VIII, "The Kempes of Gissing". (London: The Leadenhall Press), 1902. Online at Archive.org, see chart between pages 8-9 and attached image.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for ’’Magna Carta Ancestry’’.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. III, page 411-413. See also WikiTree's source page for ’’Royal Ancestry’’.

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved by Thiessen-117 on12 December 2019.

Dorothy (Harris) Kempe appears in project-approved/badged trails (reviewed in 2014 by the Magna Carta project and re-reviewed Dec 2019 by Thiessen-117) from her sons, Gateway Ancestors Richard Kempe and Edward Kemp, and her grandsons Edmund Kempe and Matthew Kempe, through Magna Carta surety barons William d'Aubigné, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, and Robert de Ros. This profile is also listed in Magna Carta Ancestry in Richardson-documented trails between the Kempe Gateways and surety barons Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod and William Malet that were developed in Autumn 2022. There are many other unbadged trails that are identified on this page. See the Magna Carta Trails section of Richard Kempe's profile, where the badged and Richardson-documented trails are all set out.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".