Elizabeth Kempe (1606 - bef. 1662)

Ancestors

Died before 1662 before age 56 in Spains Hall, Essex, England

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Biography

Elizabeth is the daughter of Robert Kemp and Dorothy Harris.^[1][2][3]

Elizabeth is mentioned in the will of her mother Dorothy Harris in 1626.^[3]

She married Sir Robert Kempe,^[1] Knight of Finehingfield Spains Hall, as his 2nd wife.^[4]

Elizabeth and Sir Robert Kempe, had one daughter together,

1. Frances Kempe^[3].

Elizabeth died before 1662, which is around the time Sir Robert Kempe married his 3rd wife, Elizabeth Steward, daughter of Thomas Steward; Robert died the following year and his will was proved in 1663.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed, Vol. 2, page 468-470, KEMPE 16.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 412.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Hitchin-Kemp, Frederick (1902). A general history of the Kemp and Kempe families of Great Britain and her colonies, with arms, pedigrees, portraits, illustrations of seats, foundations, chantries, monuments, documents, old jewels, curios, etc. Published: London: The Leadenhall Press: New York: C. Scribner’s Sons. [database on-line]. Provo UT. The Generations Network, Inc. 2005. Retrieved from {https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00kemp/page/n182}
4. ↑ Pedigree from "descents of the Barons of Norfolk and Suffolk; Pg 97; Hitchin-Kemp, Frederick; retrieved from {https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00kemp/page/n97}