KEMP
(Foster
– Adams – Blanchard – Leadbeater)
The
name Kemp* is derived from the Saxon word, to kemp or combat, which in Norfolk
is retained to this day, a foot-ball match being called camping or kemping; and
thus, in Saxon, a kemper signifies a combatant, a champion, a man of arms. This
family has been of long continuance in this county. Galfrid Kemp lived at
Norwich in 1272;
Herbert
Blanchard Leadbeater father (1917 - 1998) (son of Helen Muriel
Blanchard –LEADBEATER)
Helen Muriel
Blanchard -LEADBEATER (1891 - 1989)
grandmother
(daughter of Harry (10) Herbert Blanchard)
Harry (10)
Herbert Blanchard (1867 - 1946)
great
grandfather (son of Henry (9) Fiske Blanchard)
Henry (9)
Fiske Blanchard (1838 - 1917)
(son of Benjamin (8) Hill Blanchard)
Benjamin (8)
Hill Blanchard (1810 - 1865)
(son of Moses (7) Blanchard)
Moses (7)
Blanchard (1776 - 1858)
(son of Lucy Adams -BLANCHARD-GRANGER)
Lucy Adams -BLANCHARD-GRANGER (1747 - 1835) (daughter
of Ephraim Adams)
Ephraim
Adams (1712 - 1760) (son
of Judith (Judah) Foster –ADAMS)
Judith
(Judah) Foster -ADAMS (1683 - 1754)
(daughter of Eli Foster √)
Eli Foster √ (1656 - 1718) (son of Esther Hester Kemp
–FOSTER )
Esther Hester Kemp -FOSTER (1632 -
1702) 9th great grandmother
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There is
a FIND A GRAVE record
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KEMP
(Foster – Adams –
Blanchard – Leadbeater)
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1632 Wenham, Essex MA
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Year died – (##)
16 Apr
1702 (70)
Chelmsford, Middlesex MA
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LINK Esther Kemp
Wife of Samuel Foster
Mother of Eli Foster
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9th
GGM
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GENERATION
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1608
Gissing, Norfolk ENG
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17 Dec
1668 (60) Chelmsford, Misslesex MA
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KEMP Edward
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10th
GGF
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Married 1632
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1598
Wenham, Essex ENG
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17 Apr
1666 (68) Chelmsford, Middlesex MA
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KEMP Ann Buckenham
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10th
GGM
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Esther
Hester Kemp 1632 – 1702
(SEE ABOVE)
Samuel
Kemp1637 – 1697
m 23 May 1662 Sarah Foster 1642-1683
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GENERATION
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1565
Gissing, Norfolk ENG
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23 Oct
1623 (47) Gissing, NorfolK ENG
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KEMPE Robert
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11TH
GGF
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Married 1595
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1558
Cixee. Essex ENG
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1626 (68)
ENG
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KEMPE Dorothy Harris
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11th
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NOTES: Ann
‘Annis’ Alcock-Foster1617-1692 (8th Great
Grand Aunt) Convicted of
Witchcraft in 1692
In 1692, when Joseph Ballard's wife, Elizabeth,
came down with a fever that baffled doctors, witchcraft was suspected and a
search for the responsible witch began. Two afflicted girls of Salem village,
Ann Putnam and Mary Walcott, were taken to Andover to seek out the witch, and,
at the sight of Ann Foster, the girls fell into fits.Ann, then 72, was
subsequently arrested and taken to Salem prison. A careful reading of the trial
transcripts reveals that Ann resisted confessing to the 'crimes' she was
accused of having committed, despite being "put to the question"
(i.e. tortured) multiple times over a period of days. However, her resolve
broke when her daughter, similarly accused of witchcraft, accused her own
mother of the crime in order to save herself and her child. The transcripts
reveal the anguish of a mother attempting to shield her child and grandchild by
taking the burden of guilt upon herself. Convicted, Ann died in jail in the
winter of 1693 before the trials were discredited and ended
