William Kempe

- Bef 1641

• Name	William Kempe
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 23 Sep 1641	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I32045	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Partridge,   b. Bef 9 May 1619   d. 2 Jun 1664, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 45 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1638  [2]
  Children	1. Patience Kempe   d. 29 Oct 1676, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F19010	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was long said, including by Savage and Pope, to have been the William Kemp who appeared on the 1635 passenger list of the James, but Robert Charles Wilson points out that the William Kemp of the passenger list was called a servant, whereas the William Kemp of Duxbury was addressed with the title of "Mr.", indicating a much higher social standing. Anderson acknowledges that in certain cases a man entitled to be called "Mr." might be a servant to someone of even higher rank, but the William Kemp of the James appears on the passenger list immediately following Anthony Emery and John Emery, carpenters from Romsey, Hampshire, who settled in Newbury and were not distinguished as "Mr." From this Anderson concludes that the William Kemp of the James and the William Kemp who first appears in Duxbury in 1639 were probably two different men.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3918] The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, Early Residents of East Corinth, Vermont by Almira Torrey Blake Fenno-Gendrot. Boston: Stanhope Press, 1916. [S6053] Leslie Mahler, "The English Ancestry of Patience Bathurst, Wife of Rev. Ralph1 Partridge of Duxbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 86:81, Jul-Oct 2012.