B32732-Kempe

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Name of the family:

Kempe

Blason:

Gu. three garbs within a bordure engr. or. 6Yetf-On a garb lying fesseways or, a falcon, wings endorsedppr. The Cornish Keupes bear the falcon without the garb.

Info about the family:

Olantigh, co. Kent; a very ancient family, of which were Cardinal John Kempe, Archbishop of Canterbury, who d. in 1454, and Thomas Kempe, Bishop of London, who d. 4 Henry VII. The daus. and coheirs of Sir Thomas Kempe, Kht., of Olantigh, who d. tn 1607, were Mary, m Sir Dudley Digges, Knt.; Anne, m. to Sir John Cutts, Knt.; Dobothy, m. to Sir John Chichele; and Amy, m. to Sir Henry Skipwith. One branch of the Kempes of Olantigh is now represented by Thomas Read Kemp, Esq., of Kemp Town, Brighton; and from another, settled at Lavethan, co. Cornwall, descend the Kempes of that county, from whom derive William Kempe, Esq., of Teign Villa, co. Devon, formerly of Roath Castle, co. Glamorgan, son of the late Samuel Kempe, Esq., of Rosteage, co. Cornwall; and the Rev. Charles Trevanion Kempe, son of the late Admiral Arthur Kempe

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