This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kemp, Frith, Dwyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1331.2 Message Board Post: Well, I had thought that the Thomas Kemp who married Margaret Harris might belong to me. I descend from William Kemp who married Jane Frith on June 4, 1793 in St. Peter's Church (Church of Ireland) in the city of Cork, County Cork, Ireland. William died Mar 3, 1813 in Ireland. Jane came with 4 of her sons directly from Ireland to Baltimore in 1819. Their children were: 1. William R., b.07 Jul 1794, d.04 Aug 1817, Ireland 2. Robert Simon, b.03 Sep 1795, d.unk, Ireland 3. Richard Sampson, b.07 May 1797, d.13 Oct 1889 in Baltimore, MD; md Grace Smith in Cork in 1818 4. (*1)Simon, b.08 Aug 1799, d.Jul 1865 in Talbot Co.,MD; md Ellen Agnes Dwyer 13 Sep 1823 in Baltimore, MD 5. Eliza, b.Feb 1802, d.28 May 1802, Ireland 6. Jane Nasson(/w), b.01 Jul 1803, d.17 Feb 1813, Ireland 7. (*2)Thomas, b.15 Apr 1805, d. 09 Apr 1870, California 8. John Frith, b.07 May 1807, d.bet. 1870-1880 in Talbot Co., MD; md Margaret Pritchard 1873, Baltimore, MD This family information came from a copy of a page from an "old Bible, 1782". It was on the letterhead of one of William & Jane's grandsons (son of Simon) who owned that particular company in Baltimore for many years. There are two marriages shown for a William Kemp in Cork city. One is for a William who married Gertrude Walton in 1781 and the other is that of my William and Jane Frith. I don't have a birth date for my William so don't know if both of these are the same person. The fact that the Bible containing our Kemp family was dated 1782 makes me wonder if my William might have been married twice - maybe bought the Bible to record his family with Gertrude, then remarried after her death - but the grandson only copied the names and dates for his own grandparents. (*1) Simon is my ancestor. (*2) I have no other information on "my" Thomas. I found the record of his marriage to Margaret Harris and that of the baptisms of his two daughters in St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Baltimore but have been unable to find a Thomas Kemp in any Maryland census records that seemed to be of the correct age and marital status. I don't know if the "died in California in 1870" is correct. Baltimore city directories show that his brother, Richard Sampson Kemp, taught at St. Peter's School. Thomas is not listed in the directories in Baltimore. If you think our Thomas Kemps might be one and the same, I would be very interested in having his family information. Teresa Purvis