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Excerpt from A General History of the Kemp and Kempe Families of Great Britain and Her Colonies: With Arms, Pedigrees, Portraits, Illustrations of Seats, Foundations, Chantries, Monuments, Documents, Old Jewels, Curios, &C The question has so constantly been asked, with whom did the idea of compiling a history of the Kemps originate? that it seems fitting to preface the work with a brief account of its inception and achievement. In order to simplify matters the chief writer will, with the reader's leave, speak in the first person singular. I was on a visit to an elderly cousin, living near Ashford, in 1896, when, finding that the topics of modern conversation failed to interest him, I sought...
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