This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: k_courts Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.kemp/1770.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am a direct descendant of William Fitzhugh, the immigrant, who was married to Sarah Tucker. So we are probably related distinctly. I know that my Fitzhugh family lived in Fenton, Fauquier County, Va. and then resettled in RavensWoods, West Virginia. I remember my grandmothr telling me that the plantation we live on here between the towns of New Iberia and Jeanerette, was named Ravenswoods Plantation after the Fitzhugh plantation in West Virginia and the Fitzhugh home in England. I have seen the surname of Diggs connected with the Fitzhugh family, but I have never pursued it. Ironically, here in New Iberia, La., many, many years ago in the early 1900's there was an Episcopalian minister, Rev. Robert Diggs, who lived here in New IBeria, La. and he had four daughters, Katherine, Edie, Elizabeth, and Roberta Diggs, and my family was very close friends with all the Diggs girls and their husbands, and it is a coincidence that we could have been related and never knew it until e! veryone is gone. Also, last summer I read and made copies of the book entitled, William Fitzhugh and his Chespeake World. I am so glad to have found someone to work with me on this endeavor. I have a lot of genealogy on the Fitzhugh family, but very little on the Kemp family. Several years ago, I started doing research on the Kemp family, and someone wrote to me telling me that my Kemp family was probably from Ohio. (At that time, I didn't pursue due to the fact that I was raising two young children, and working on graduate degrees) I do know that George Nicholas Fitzhugh was born ion the date of October 29, 1813 to Henry Fitzhugh and Heneritte Fitzhugh, (two Fitzhugh intermarried) and his brother, Theodrick Bland Fitzhugh, was born on the date of March 1, 1818 in Fauquier County, Va, George Nicholas Fitzhugh was married on the date of February 1, 1849 to Sarah Lettia Kemp, who was (I think from what I found on the internet and a mention of a Daniel Kemp in my grandmother's old papers) was Daniel L. Kemp and his wife, Letticia Roach, and she was born on the date of January 1, 1834 in Fauquier or Jackson County, Va. George Nicholas Fitzhugh and Sarah Letticia Kemp had one daughter, who was named, Katherine Fitzhugh, and she was born on the date of December 1, 1853 in RavensWood, Va. I know that my Fitzhugh family had moved to Ravenswood, West Virginia. NOw, from my research I have concluded that George Nicholas Fitzhugh and his wife, Sarah Leticia Kemp, along with the other Fitzhugh family members must! have removed from Fauquier County, Va. to Ravenswood, West Virginia. After the close of the Civil War, both, George Nicholas and his brother, Theodrick Bland, Fitzhugh removed to Louisiana thinking they could live cheaper the farther South they went without their slaves, they were on a boat head to Ala. when some man told them to go to Louisiana cause you could pick your dollar bills off of the sugar cane leaves, so to Louisiana they came. They first settled in St. Martinville, Louisiana on a portion of the Charles Durand plantation and then eventually removed to New Iberia, Louisiana where they lived across the street on East Main Street from each other. Also, I remember my Grandmother Heneritte telling me how Grandmother Letticia Kemp Fitzhugh dug up her orange lilies and replanted them in her yard on Main Street. Removing to Louisiana were George Nicholas Fitzhugh and his wife, Sarah Letticia Kemp, and their daughter, Kate, and Theodrick Bland Fitzhugh, and his wife, Susan, and their children, who were Mary Diggs Fitzhugh, who was born on February 16, 154 in Ravenwood, West Virginia, Theda Bland Fitzhugh, who was born on August 4, 1861 in Ravenswood, West Virginia. Glad to have made your contact and happy to be working with you and looking forwad to getting to know you and your family, I deeply appreciate your assistance, thank you very, very much. kitty courts PS My private email address is MsNovelist@hotmail.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.