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| Name: William Campe Sex: M Birth: ABT 1559 in England Note: From Barbara Ferris: The English Camp/Kemp Ancestors We really have no conclusive proof that our known relative of Thomas Camp/Kemp I is related to the Camp/Kemps of England. There is a good deal of conjecture surrounding this family and early settlements in Jamestown based on the investment of Lawrence Camp/Kemp in the early Virginia trading company. Several researchers have proposed that there is a connection to the family of William Campe of London, who married Mary Farmer in 1584 in London but no true ancestoral line has been established. William Kemp and Mary Farmer had at least four sons: Lawrence, Richard, Nicholas, and Thomas. Most of the records that could have established this family line were burned the Great Fire of London of 1666. William Campe may be related to the Kempe family of Norfolk. "If William Campe's son or grandson Thomas was the one mentioned as a kinsman of Robert Kempe, Baronet, in Gissing, Norfolk, he might have been the son of the Robert Kempe, father of Batholomew who became the ancestor of most of the Kempes in Norfolk. However, the date sequence places doubts upon this supposition. In 1637 in Nasing (Gissing ?) Parish, Essex County, England, the names of Nicholas and Thomas Camp, brothers were listed on a Jury Duty List. It is claimed these two men came to America. there was a mention of kinsmen in Essex County noted in the LW & T of Frances Mingay Kempe in 1632. This, the relationship is possible. however, there was a John de Combes in County Essex in the middle of the 13th Century. He and his wife Alice Gunter had a son named Nicholas Combes or Camp or Kemp, who fathered a son John Kemp (Kempe) he, in turn, fathered William, who fathered a Robert who married Ann Apulderfield and had amoung others, a son named William. William married Mary Colt and had Robert, Henry, John, Arthur, Ann, George, and Margaret. Nicholas previously mentioned and the brother of Thomas Camp or Kemp, settled in New England and Thomas went to Virginia, not long after 1635.... Thomas Kemp appeared in Virginia, in or before 1641. Just what relationships these men had with the ones of the same names in Nasing is not definitely proven, but it is accepted that they were the same persons. Not too far distant from Nasing Parish lay Hundson Parish in Herts. The register of that parish showed an Edward Camp and wife Grace with children. One Edward was baptized in that parish on September 21, 1617. Edward and Grace had other chldren named William, Philemon, George, Mary and Grace. (See Herbert C. Bibbs, The Parish Registers of Hunsdon 1546-1837, London, 1915) [William. p. 4] Lawrence Kemp, son of William and Mary Farmer Campe was a member of the Company of Honorable Drapers and Weavers. Lawrence had no children of his own but was a prominent figure who made a number of investments that left him very well off. In John Burke's History of Virginia, Vol. No. 1 appendix, Lawrence Camp is the named as a large subscriber to the fund for colonizing Virginia and was therefore called a "Member of the Great Charter of the Virgina Company" when it was granted by King James I on May 23, 1609. He had owned seven shares of stock in the Company which he was allowed to draw 700 acres of land in Gloucester County, Virginia. This land fell to his brother Thomas Camp upon his death. In England, Lawrence Camp endowed a fund at Cambridge University for the maintenance of poor scholars. He also gave 7000 pounds to found an Alms House in Parish of Fraim Barnet in his home county. He was also the bulder and patron of the Church of All-Hallows-In-The Wall where be was buried. On his death his estate was divided among his three brothers. Richard took the property in England and remained there, Nicholas took the New England investments, and Thomas received the land and estates in Virginia. This Thomas may have had a son, Thomas Camp, who is one of the early known settlers. Therefore the Thomas Camp of King and Queen Co. Virginia is probably the great grand nephew of the Lawrence Camp. Most of the Colonial Records of Gloucester and county were destroyed which could prove this association. [Williams. p.43] William Campe b. c1560 ST. Dunston in tghe West London, England m. Mary Farmer 1584 St. Peter Westcheap, London Children Lawrence Campe b. * d. 1751 m. Richard Campe b. * d. m. Nicolas Campe b.* d. m. Thomas Campe b.* d. m. *I have some dates from LDS files but no documentations that says that we are dealing with same individual and Russ Williams has none. See more on Jamestown. sources: Ancestral Rolls, South Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, Compiled 1938 by Mrs E. T. Crawford, State Registrar. Mann, Col. Robt. Neville and Catherine Creek-Mann, Camp-Kemp Family Hist., Vol. II, 1969 Landrum, Dr. L. B. O. . History of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1900, reprinted 1954. Williams, E. Russ, Jr.The Kemp, Turner and Roberts Families on Little Silver Creek, Washington Parish Louisiana. 1992, Williams Genealogical Pub., 514 Cole Ave, Monroe, LA 71203 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Father: Richard Campe b: 1540 in Nazeing, Essex, England Marriage 1 Mary Farmer b: 1563 in London, England • Married: 1584 in London Children 1. Thomas Campe b: 1630 in Chignal St. James, Essex, England | ||||||||
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