Edmund Kempe (1606 - bef. 1649)

Born 1606 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Bridget (Unknown) Kempe — married about 1624 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 25 Sep 1649 before age 43 in England

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

This Edmund Kempe was not the Gateway Ancestor. It was his son Edmund who immigrated to America. See G2G discussion here and SGM post here for the most recent discussions (2018) on his son, Edmund Kempe.

Disambiguation: When sources disagree, the most recent source by recognized authority normally takes precedence, even (or especially) by earlier sources by the same authority. The most recent authoritative book on Edmund Kempe was published in 2013 by Douglas Richardson, a very well known authority on early New England families. In this reference, it is clear that Edmund Kempe, the son of Robert Kempe and Dorothy Harris, was born in 1606 and died in 1649. His son also named Edmund Kempe is not given a date of birth, but it must be after 1624, and he died in 1660. The data in the biography below is sourced to Richardson. See the discussions in links above for alternate theories.

Biography

Edmund Kempe, of Stepney, Middlesex, son of Robert Kempe, Esq., and Dorothy Harris, was born in 1606.^[1][2]

Edmund matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford on 16 April 1624,^[1] aged 18.^[3]

Edmund married (date/place unknown) to Bridget ______, who was his widow when he died.^[1] They had one son.

• Edmund,^[2] Gent., was named in the 1650 will of his uncle Richard Kempe.^[1][4] He married Anne ____ and had two children. Edmund died intestate in 1660 (date of appraisal of estate).^[1]

On 25 September 1649, administration was granted for the estate of Edmund Kempe,^[1][2] of Stepney, Middlesex; his wife was the administrator.^[5] In 1651, Bridget, his widow, granted a Power of Attorney to Daniel Clarke of Virginia.^[1]

Mr. F. H. Kemp states "Edmund, eldest son of [this] Edmund, and grandson of Robert, was the emigrant to Virginia".^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} 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, page 470, KEMPE 16.iii.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} 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 413-414.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Withington, Lothrop. Virginia Gleanings in England, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980), online at Ancestry.com, page 324.
4. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), online at Ancestry.com.
5. ↑ “Virginia Gleanings in England.” in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 20, no. 1, 1912, pages 69–78, online at JSTOR, page 75. Accessed 7 Jan. 2020.

• 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). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Smith, Claiborne. Jr. "Kemp of Gissing County, Norfolk" published in Historical Southern Families, vol. X. (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1966), online at Archive.org, pages 164-169.
• Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), online at Ancestry.com, pages 151-152.
• P.C.C. Admon Act Book 1649, folio 101

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed by Thiessen-117 20:24, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Edmund Kempe appears in badged trails (reviewed in 2014 by the Magna Carta project and re-reviewed Dec 2019 by Thiessen-117) from his son, Gateway Ancestor Edmund Kempe, to 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 also appears in Richardson-documented trails to Magna Carta Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod and William Malet that were developed in Autumn 2022. See the Magna_Carta_Trails|Magna Carta Trails section on Richard Kempe's profile, where all these 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".