Kemp Will 1621

Will of Dunston Kempe

of Sandwich, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 17/63/176b
Submitted by Shelagh Mason

The laste will and testament nuncupative of Dunston Kempe of the Town and Porte of Sandwich in the Countye of Kent Cordwayner the two and twentieth Daye of Julye 1621 or thereabouts
Being weake and sicklye in bodye but yet of perfecte mynde and sound memory with a mynde and intent to dispose of his goods and make his will said as followeth or the same like wordes in effecte and substance followinge, vizt.

I give all that I have to my wiffe and appoynt her to be myne executrix

Witnesses: Edward Smallwood his marke - Richard Pynder

Probatum fuit: 4th dei Augustis 1621.

Notes:
Dunstone Kempe died and was buried at St. Peter, Sandwich on 24th July 1621.
Elyzabeth Kempe was buried at St. Peter, Sandwich on 22nd April 1622.
Dunstone Kempe had first married Hestar Adkyns on 29th November 1595 at St. Peter�s.
Their children (all christened at St. Peter�s):
26-Sep 1596 C Edward (Bu.: 17 Oct 1596)
29-Jan 1598 C Margarett
10-Feb 1599 C John
Hestar�s burial is not found.
28th May 1610, Dunston Kempe secondly married Elizabeth Ewell at Woodnesborough. Both were of St. Peter in Sandwich.
Their children (both christened at St. Peter�s):
31-Jan 1619 C Richard
17-Dec 1620 C Edward
See also: PRC 17/61/453 Will of Elizabeth Kempe, Widow, Sandwich, dated 19th April 1622 and Proved 20th April 1622.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 10th June 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.

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