Edmund Kempe (abt. 1626 - 1660)

Born about 1626 in England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1660 at about age 34 in Lancaster County, Virginia Colony

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

NOTE: EDMUND'S PARENTS ARE DISPUTED. See G2G discussion here and SGM post here for the most recent discussions (2018) on this subject. As no primary sources have been found, per Magna Carta Project guidelines, the biography below defers to Douglas Richardson's Royal Ancestry and Magna Carta Ancestry as the most relevant/recent source of information on this person. Also see "Disambiguation" (below).

Biography

This profile is part of the Kemp Name Study.

Edmund Kempe was a Virginia colonist.

Edmund Kempe, Gent., was the son of Edmund Kempe and Bridget ______.^[1][2] Richardson states that Edmund's father, Edmund (Sr.) was born in 1606 and matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, 16 April 1624.^[1] As it is unlikely that his father married before he matriculated, Edmund (Jr.) is attributed an estimated birth date of about 1626.

Legatee

Edmund was a legatee in the will of his uncle, Richard Kemp (1st secretary of Virginia), dated 4 January 1649/50 and proved 6 December 1656.^[1] In the will, Edmund was bequeathed "one new servant".^[3]

Marriage and Children

Edmund married to Anne ______, date and place unknown.^[1] They had one son and one daughter.

• Matthew,^[1] was a member of the Virginia council.^[4]
• Elizabeth, who married _____ Bonner.^[1][3]

Immigration and Land

Edmund immigrated from England to Virginia and settled at Pianketank, Lancaster County, before 1653.^[1]

In 1654, he purchased from George Reade 600 acres on the Peacketanke River.^[1]

Further evidencing that Edmund settled in Lancaster County, the county taxed him based on his labor force, assessing him for for five tithables, 7 Dec 1655,^[5] for six tithables, 5 Nov 1656,^[6] for six tithables, 16 Dec 1657,^[7] for five tithables, 31 Oct 1658,^[8] again for five tithables, 30 Nov 1659,^[9] and for five tithables, 15 Nov 1660.^[10]

Positions

Edmund was a Justice in Lancaster County, Virginia from 1655^[4] to 1657.^[1][3] In 1656, Edmund acted as attorney for Robert Kempe, Knt.,^[1] of Spain's Hall, Essex, in Virginia. NOTE: This is NOT the same Robert as his kinsman, Robert, 1st Baronet.^[3]

Death and Legacy

Edmund Kemp, Gent., died intestate in 1660 (date of appraisal of his estate).^[1][3] His widow, Anne, married second, to Grey Skipwith,^[4] Knt., 3rd Baronet,^[3] of Lancaster County (later Middlesex County), Virginia, before 10 July 1661.^[1] Sir Grey died before February 1672 and Anne died on 5 March 1685 in Christ Church parish, Middlesex County, Virginia.^[1]

Research Notes

Disambiguation: This Edmund Kempe, who married Anne (Unknown) died in 1660 in Virginia. He was the son of Edmund Kempe of Stepney, Middlesex, England, born 1606 and died before 25 September 1649. That Edmund Kempe (father of this Edmund Kempe) is the son of Robert Kempe and Dorothy Harris, also brother of Richard Kempe, who was acting Governor of Virginia in 1644-5.^[1]

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} 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 469-470, KEMPE 16.iii.a.
2. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), vol. III, page 414, KEMPE #18.iii.a.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Hitchin-Kemp, Frederick. A General History of the Kemp and Kempe Families of Great Britain and her Colonies. (London: The Leadenhall Press: New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1902) online at Archive.org, pages 61-62.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. 1, page 270. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1915), online at Archive.org, accessed 4 Jan 2020.
5. ↑ 1655 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 7 Dec 1655. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Deed & Will Book 1, 1652-1657, pp. 234-239. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here, as transcribed in 1961 Transcription. Fleet, Beverley. 1961. Virginia Colonial Abstracts: Vol. XXII, Lancaster County 1652-1655. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Pages 106-109. Available online without restriction courtesy of HathiTrust here. Accessed 29 Jan 2024. To see what others appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.
6. ↑ 1656 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 5 Nov 1656. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Deed & Will Book 1, 1652-1657, pp. 302-307. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 23 Mar 2024. To see what others appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.
7. ↑ 1657 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 16 Dec 1657. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Order Book, 1655-1666, pp. 40-44. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 30 Mar 2024. To see what other colonists appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.
8. ↑ 1658 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 31 Oct 1658. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Order Book 1655-1666, pp. 60-64. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 24 Jan 2024. To see what other colonists appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.
9. ↑ 1659 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 30 Nov 1659. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Order Book 1655-1666, pp. 100-105. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 25 Jan 2024. Visit Lancaster County Tax Records to see what other colonists appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces.
10. ↑ 1660 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 15 Nov 1660. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Order Book 1655-1666, pp. 131-132. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 10 Apr 2024. Visit Lancaster County Tax Records to see what other colonists appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces.

• 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:

• Murphy, Nathan 18 Apr 2018 post on soc.genealogy.medieval GoogleGroups forum.
• Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), online at Ancestry.com, pages 151-152.
• Withington, Lothrop. Virginia Gleanings in England, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980), online at Ancestry.com, page 324, 552, 597.
• Kemp, Nora A. Wilkes Genealogical Society Newsletter (North Wilkesboro, NC: Wilkes Genealogical Society, Spring, 1996), pages 9-11, footnote. Not available online.
• Boddie, John Bennett. Historical Southern Families. vol. X. (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1966), online at page 165.

Acknowledgements

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved by Thiessen-117 02:54, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Edmund Kempe is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) in project-approved/badged trails (reviewed in 2014 by the Magna Carta project and re-reviewed Dec 2019 by Thiessen-117) through Magna Carta surety barons William d'Aubigné, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, and Robert de Ros. Edmund Kempe is also a Gateway in Richardson-documented trails to 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".