Kemp Family History
Kemp Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: status name for a
champion, Middle English and Middle Low German kempe. In the
Middle Ages a champion was a professional fighter on behalf of others;
for example the King’s Champion, at the coronation, had the duty of
issuing a general challenge to battle to anyone who denied the king’s
right to the throne. The Middle English word corresponds to Old
English cempa and Old Norse kempa ‘warrior’; both these
go back to Germanic campo ‘warrior’, which is the source of the
Dutch and North German name, corresponding to High German
Kampf.Dutch: metonymic occupational name for
someone who grew or processed hemp, from Middle Dutch canep
‘hemp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kemp
Name Distribution of Kemp Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kemp families
 1,213 - 2,424  405 - 1,212 |
 1 - 404  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kemp families
|
184 - 365 62 - 183 |
1 - 61 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kemp census records
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Kemp Family Origin
Kemp Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kemp Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kemp Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kemp census records
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Military Service by Kemp
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