This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kemp, Camp, Gates, Shelton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1455 Message Board Post: Hi! I'm looking for the above person who married in Jefferson County, Arkansas in 1866 who had a sister named May. Amanda or"Mandy" married David Shelton and had several children and eventually moved to Falls County, Texas and then back to Clark County, Arkansas where she married William Gates and died in 1901. Please help!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kemp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1454 Message Board Post: Travel books Paradise regained? Penny Green finds Nicholas Shakespeare's investigation into settlers In Tasmania produces an interesting result Saturday January 1, 2005 The Guardian Buy In Tasmania at the Guardian bookshop In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare 320pp, Harvill, £20 In Tasmania is an outsider's tale - an outsider who wishes to be an insider - and on this count Nicholas Shakespeare was lucky. Having first fallen in love with Tasmania's east coast, his subsequent discovery of letters held by his grandmother revealed distant ancestors whose stories illuminated the history of Tasmania's early white settlement. Shakespeare focuses on Anthony Fenn Kemp, a distant relative whom most Tasmanians would be surprised to hear described as "the father of Tasmania". The more we learn of this cruel, pompous and unpleasant bootlegger, who fled England in disgrace and came to hold positions of some authority in the new colony of Van Diemen's Land, the more likely it seems that the title was one of self-invention. In Tasmania is a mixture of history, genealogy, travelogue and journalism. The history is perhaps the least successful section of the book. The narrative becomes mired in the minutiae of Kemp's political and business manoeuvres. Here Shakespeare presents a multitudinous array of bit-characters and their relationships with Kemp, but quickly confuses the reader. He is best when he writes about the Tasmanians he encounters on his travels around the state. He captures their guileless charm and contented insularity with genuine warmth. Describing how he fell into conversation with an old fisherman at the mouth of the Swan River who asked his name, he writes: "'Shakespeare?' - he looked at me excited as if he had doubted what he had heard - 'Not Shakespeare? You couldn't possibly be related to the family who make the fishing tackle?'" Through some detailed inquiries he discovers more distant relatives on the state's north-west coast - Maud and Ivy, "two tiny old women... in unbuttoned hand-knitted, turquoise cardigans and fluffy slippers" so frail that Shakespeare felt they would "crackle like two poppadoms" if he hugged them. They had lived all their lives in the one small farmhouse and the furthest they had ever travelled was to Launceston, 70 miles to the east, and that was more than 55 years ago in 1947. Maud and Ivy embody the belief of many of Shakespeare's Tasmanian informants: when living in paradise, why travel elsewhere? Van Diemen's Land was infamous as a cruel and unrelenting penal colony. Today, however, Tasmanians search the archives and public records in the hope of finding a convict ancestor in order to embed themselves in the early history of their nation. There is cachet in convict heritage: no longer the "stain", it now represents a powerful and authentic claim to Tasmanian identity. Identity is a major theme of In Tasmania and Shakespeare's exploration of contemporary Aboriginality is perhaps the most engaging section of the book. At first settlement there were an estimated 4,000 Tasmanian Aborigines. Then there was genocide, exemplified ideologically by the "Black Line" in which 2,200 settlers, soldiers and convicts set out to herd, kill or capture as many Aborigines as possible. That only one man and a child were captured belies the significance of the attempt. The traditional Aboriginal population was soon after to disappear through settler brutality, denigration and disease. Tasmanian history, until the work of revisionist historians such as Henry Reynolds, held that Truganini was the last Tasmanian Aborigine, and that when she died in 1876, so too had a whole race. On the small islands off the coast of Tasmania - Bruny, Cape Barron and Flinders - islanders of mixed race (aboriginal and European) had flourished, but as "Islanders" not "Aboriginals". Today some 16,000 Tasmanians identify themselves as Aboriginal but claims to Aboriginal identity are frequently remote, confused, spurious and sometimes bitterly contested. In 2002 a woman's claim to Aboriginality was rejected while her full brother's claim was accepted. The lack of a written language and the loss of the Tasmanian tribal languages has meant that little is now known about the traditional culture. Today on the Bass Strait islands "the one cultural activity... central to defining modern Aboriginal identity", mutton-birding, is already in serious decline. Shakespeare reports Henry Reynolds: "If you are saying you are a Tasmanian Aboriginal you are saying that you are something that you don't know how to be. You don't know how to live it." Here is the nub of the problem. One of Shakespeare's most powerful insights is on the whole question of Aboriginal identity which, as he documents, has been unable to incorporate the concept of a "mixed identity". "I wondered how much of the confusion had arisen from a decision by the political leadership to reject the richness of their background and to embrace Aboriginality as the sum of their identity." There are inaccuracies and a good deal of conjecture in the book but these are likely to irritate only Tasmanian readers - it is absurd, for example, to suggest that an incident in which an escaped convict resorted to cannibalism has become "embedded in the Tasmanian psyche", or that there are "common Tasmanian habits... of concealing one's racial origins". But perhaps these irritations are simply the sensitivities of a Tasmanian unhappy with imprecise, lazy generalisations. I did, however, discover the scientific explanation for the fantastic clarity of light which forces the donning of sunglasses the minute one steps off the plane on to the tarmac at Launceston's Western Junction airport. Tasmania is an enigmatic place and Shakespeare captures it with an appreciative eye - coastal, remote and deeply beautiful, with still largely unexplored ancient rainforests, perfect bays, mountains, lakes and pure white, glistening beaches. But in many ways Tasmania is as much about extinction and loss as it is about unique wilderness and physical beauty. Its remoteness gives cover to a dark history and a careless and corrupt present that is only alluded to in the book. The near genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines, the forced extinction of the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, followed by the criminal destruction of unique old-growth forests by logging companies, a dramatic decline in the islander occupation of mutton-birding and the perpetual haemorrhage of Tasmania's young people to pastures more alluring - all mark a persistent inability by those governing Tasmania to value its environment. The logging issue is the most important. For more than 30 years Tasmania has been squandering its greatest asset - the exotic old-growth forests of eucalyptus, myrtle, sassafrass, leatherwood and celery-top pine. The destruction of these rainforests through clear-felling and napalm in the interests of corporate profit is an obscenity. The wealth has not trickled down into the state's economy and Tasmania remains the poorest of Australia's eight states and territories, its rate of unemployment the highest. And in a sense Shakespeare grasps the contradiction of Tasmania as a place where progress is paralysed not only by craven government but by myth and history: "We walk back along our footprints that the sea has not washed away and not for the first time do I have the feeling that I am following the tracks of a strange backward-walking creature."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EZm.2ACIB/1451.2 Message Board Post: My email address is oct1928@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EZm.2ACIB/1451.1 Message Board Post: John Kemp is my Great4 Grand Father. He was born in 1723, probably in Maryland, and was buried January 1795 in Fredricksburgh, Ontario. He married (1) Anna Van Vorst in October 1732 in Schenectady, New York. After Anna's death in July 1789, he married Anna Beck. My Joseph Kemp was born July 1761 and died in 1836. He married Catherine Bovee on 3 December 1787. My John Kemp was born in 1768 and died in 1861 in Ontario. He married Mary DeFoe in January 1795 in Fredricksburgh, Ontario. I noted that your last name is Lawlor. I have Lawler's in the lineage although with an e in lieu of an o. Tom Lawler married an Ella Kemp and they had two children, Theresa and Harry. Theresa 1883-l978 and Harry 1887-1970. Harry married Pearl Weyers in October 1930. Hope this helps.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1453 Message Board Post: Looking for info on Charles A. L. Kemp (aka Leslie Kemp) He was born in Baltimore in late 1890's.His father was Charles M.Kemp and Clara M. Miller. After his father left the family, his mother married Lemuel Simkin.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1452 Message Board Post: Frances (Fanny) H. Bolling b. 1832 d. 1872, Amelia County, VA, m. John J. Kemp b. 1803. Their son, Francis Bolling Kemp b. 1864, Brooklyn, NY d. 1926 m. 1898 Evelyn Andrews b. 1876 d. 1937, Rockingham County, NC. Their son, Francis Bolling Kemp, Jr. b. 1902 d. 1950 m. 1934 Billie Stocks b. 1913 d. 1982, Reidsville, NC. Their son, Francis Bolling Kemp, III (Buddy) b. 1940 d. 1990 m. Virginia Millner, Charlotte, NC.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1451 Message Board Post: Looking for John Kemp SR. 1723-1795 Anna died 1789 Ontatio, Canada Joseph Kemp, 1758- Catherine (Katreen) Bovie John Kemp 1788-1861 Eleanor Martin Kemp 1787-1864

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kemp, Harris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1450 Message Board Post: I was looking for information on a Jack Kemp and his wife.Some one said he could have been called Harris. He was Cherokee and took the white man's name. Here are some names I have that may be part of his family. Zora May Brooks, Lois Beleck, Sella or Stella Howard, Pauline McCormick, Allice Taulk, Frances White. Now I was told this may be his son's and daughters. Rubin Brooks, James, Tommy,Bobby,Jackie, Ralph, Paul. Annie Smith, Pearl Thomas, Lela Humphries, Eva Humphries, Lois Backius. Now I know Pearl Thomas was his daughter for she was my husbands grandmother. Pearl Thomas married Leon Thomas. And they had several children. Howard Thomas, Lola Beal, Audery Hosey,Myera Wyatt,William Thomas and Lillian Finch. Now Lola Thomas Beal married Hushel Dewey and they had 5 children. Barbara Ann Beal Worthy Terry., Wanda Kay Beal, Larry Wayne Beal, Lonnie Glenn Beal, Betty Pearl Beal Westfall. Barbara married Robert Worthy and had 2 children, Vickie and Gayle. Divorced and married Van Terry. No children. Larry married Beverly Rhodes and had 1 child. Angela Michelle Beal(born:12/14/1983), Lonnie married Regina and had 2 children: Michael and Amber. Betty married Steve Westfall and had 3 children: Dena, Brian, Amanda. Dena has 2 children, Brian has 2 children. Amanda has one as I know of. There is a lot of line but I am just begaining to do the family tree. Can you tell me anything on Jack Kemp.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: George and Harriet Ward Kemp Classification: Immigration Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1449 Message Board Post: I am researching the above people from whom I am descended. They came from the Ickleton, Cambridge area. They left England in 1853 and arrived in Sydney, Australia with their two daughters Harriet and Sarah Ann on board the David McIver in Sept. 1853. They had further children in Australia and lived in the Araluen/Braidwood area. Please contact me if you think you are related.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1279.1 Message Board Post: william kemp c1794 Boston emigrated to Cheshire Wildfowler known as (billy the Duck) quite famous Sheepfarming family Stu Little

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kemp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/223.1 Message Board Post: Any more info on Clifford Kemp?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1448 Message Board Post: Looking for more information on Clifford Kemp in the Warren Ohio area. According to the census, his parents were from Pennsylvania, possibly Frank and Louella?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/227.354.1 Message Board Post: Did you ever find more information on Clifford? I have been looking for information on Clifford Kemp from the Warren, Ohio area.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kemp, Harvey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1447 Message Board Post: I am looking for information regarding William and Alma Harvey Kemp. William was b. Feb 13, 1859 in MO and married Alma Harvey May 26, 1903. They moved to Lakin, Kansas and had 8 children: Bert, Clarence Ray, Viola, Mary, George, Frances, Grace and Thelma. Alma died in 1915 and I think William married a 2nd time. The only info I have is on Alma, Clarence and Viola. Was wondering about the other children, birthdates, marriages, children, etc. Will be willing to share what info I have. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KEMP Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EZm.2ACIB/1446 Message Board Post: KEMP_Juanita_1923-2000.JPG I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery - Ascension Section, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your personal records. This is one of the 100,856 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kemp, Knapp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1445 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on a Ruth Kemp. I do not have exact dates or places only general information. Ruth Kemp married David Eugene Knapp probably about 1940 - 45 and most likely in Soutwest Michigan. David's family was in (at different times) the Kalamazoo, Berrien, and Van Buren Counties of Michigan. I have been told they had 2 daughters, names unknown. Ruth divorced David, date unknown, and I'm told she moved to Indiana. David eventually ended up in Texas where he died. Just trying to fill in some gaps - David was my mother-n-law's Uncle and we have no information on his two daughter's, who would be her cousins.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Falls, Kemp, Hazlewood, Herron, McKinnon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EZm.2ACIB/1444 Message Board Post: George William Kemp is listed in the Beechwood Cemetery Index 1873-1900. Beechwood Cemetery is in Ottawa, Ontario. He died Feb 8, 1894 . His interment number is 6073.

Hello Joy, I am not sure whether I am on the right wavelength for you and will need a little more time to peruse my records, but I have a booklet of Kemps of Selborne (they aren't my Kemps) and at first glance I wonder if this George is yours? George Kemp died 1743 and Elizabeth Silvester (died 1750) were married on 9 JUly 1696. They had the following children: Elizabeth chr 26 Feb 1696-97 (died 1757) Ann chr 2 Feb 1698-99 'Roase' chr 20 October 1700 (died 1719) George chr 22 Feb 1702-03 (died 1751?) married Hannah later married John Mayhew on 23 Oct 1756 Thomas chr 22 November 1709 (died 1710) Thomas chr 30 March 1711 (died 1754 William chr 21 Nov 1714 (died 1785?) I have a little more if you are interested and this seems to be your family. Marg in Queensland Australia whose Kemps came from Co.Cavan Ireland. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Waters" <joy2811uk@yahoo.co.uk> To: <KEMP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:52 AM Subject: George,Thomas, Colin - lived in SELBORNE, BLACKMOOR & HEADLEY, Hants > > Greetings fellow KEMP researchers! > My grandmother Kate KEMP (1891-1944) was one of ten children and came from a long line of bricklayers, builders and carpenters: the KEMPs of Selborne, Hampshire. > Kate was: > > the daughter of Colin KEMP (1858-1937) and Caroline nee GIBB, > > grand-daughter of Thomas (c.1832-1895) and Jane nee SNELLING, > > great grand-daughter of Thomas (c.1792-1871) and Maria nee VOAKES, great great grand-daughter of George (1749-1823) and Martha nee BIDE, great great great grand-daughter of George (1702-1751) & Hannah UNK. > Is anyone researching this branch of the family? If so, please get in touch so that we can exchange information. > Nigel Kemp (thanks again Nigel if you're on this list) very kindly sent me lots of info on the KEMPs, but I do have a few gaps which hopefully SKS might be able to help with. They are: > George KEMP son of George and Elizabeth, christened in Selborne on 22 March 1702, married Hannah UNK. What was Hannah's surname and where/when did they marry? > > > > Thomas KEMP son of George KEMP and Martha BIDE, was born circa 1792. Where and when? > > > > Thomas KEMP son of Thomas KEMP and Maria VOAKES was born circa 1832. Where and when? > > > > With fingers crossed, > > > > all good wishes, > > Joy > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger > > > ==== KEMP Mailing List ==== > Have you looked at the Kemp Queries section on the Web page lately? > http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1926 >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KEMP/CRAIGHEAD/MADDOX/et al Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EZm.2ACIB/1398.1 Message Board Post: A good place to start to prove or disprove the parentage would be in the wills of Callaway County. If you live close by, the county has a fabulous set of records which can be searched. Since they are on microfilm, Family History Centers of the LDS may have a copy as well. I'm researching the Kemp name in that county. What are Thomas's ancestors names? Lolene

Hello Marg Many thanks for your reply. Yes, this is my family : my branch comes from George KEMP christened 22 Feb 1702/03 who married Hannah UNK. It is George and Hannah's marriage that I would like to find - also Hannah's surname. G & H had a son, Thomas KEMP, circa 1792 who is my 3xgreat grandfather. Unfortunately, I have no date/place of birth or christening for him. Does this information appear in your booklet? It sounds like a very useful publication. Is it still available for purchase and if so, would you know where I could get one from? Thanks again for your response. Warm regards Joy Waters writing from a cold, grey and wet Surrey countryside. Neil & Marg Andrews <nandrews@caloundra.net> wrote: << I wonder if this George is yours? George Kemp died 1743 and Elizabeth Silvester (died 1750) were married on 9 JUly 1696. They had the following children: Elizabeth chr 26 Feb 1696-97 (died 1757) Ann chr 2 Feb 1698-99 'Roase' chr 20 October 1700 (died 1719) George chr 22 Feb 1702-03 (died 1751?) married Hannah later married John Mayhew on 23 Oct 1756 Thomas chr 22 November 1709 (died 1710) Thomas chr 30 March 1711 (died 1754 William chr 21 Nov 1714 (died 1785?) I have a little more if you are interested and this seems to be your family. Marg in Queensland Australia whose Kemps came from Co.Cavan Ireland. --------------------------------- Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality.