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Kemper: Origin, Geographical Distribution
In old English, a soldier, one who engaged in single combat 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 a camping or kemping; and thus in Saxon a Kemper signifies a combatant, a champion, a man-at-arms. In some parts of Scotland the striving of reapers in the harvest-field is still called kemping.
Kemper Surname Origin
Spelling Variations : KEMPER | KEMPERS
Kemper: Place of Origin :  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Lincolnshire (United Kingdom) |  Staffordshire (United Kingdom) |  Mayo (Ireland) |  Cumbria (United Kingdom)
Kemper: Online Family Trees
KEMPER Manchester Mo. (Lancashire, England, United Kingdom) 1950 - 1950
KEMPER Londen (Engeland) (London, England, United Kingdom) 1914 - 1922
KEMPER Egmond-Binnen (United Kingdom) 1896 - 1896
KEMPER Cambridge Middlesex Co Ma (London, England, United Kingdom) 1738 - 1738
KEMPER Cambridgeshire England (Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom) 1930 - 1930
KEMPER Leeds Yorkshire Engeland (West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom) 1934 - 1934
KEMPER  (United Kingdom) 1859 - 1859
KEMPER Cedar Grove, Warrenton, Fauquier Co., Va (Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1760 - 1760

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Kemper: Books that contain this surname
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KEMPERGenealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts
Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed - Published in 1908
... mother was a daughter of Jacob Kemper, an immigrant from Germany to America in 1741, born at Bacha-rach, a fortified ...
KEMPEREdward Jessup of West Farms, Westchester Co., New York and his descendants : with an introduction and an appendix, the latter containing records of other American families of the name with some additional memoranda
Author: Jesup, Henry Griswold, 1826-1903 - Published in 1887
... 1797, Mary Kemper, daughter of Daniel Kemper, a colonel in the Revolutionary war, and a personal friend of General Washington, ...
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