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Re : Kemble name

Jenny Coyle (View posts)
Posted: 26 Feb 2004 2:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Mar 2004 4:12AM GMT
Surnames: Kemble
My maiden name was Kemble, my father was Edward Joseph Kemble born in West London in 1918 he was an only son but with many sisters. I am looking for the origins of the name, what country it originally came from etc and help on tracing family. My grandfathers name was Edward William Kemble and as far as I am aware he was born in 1888.

Re: Re : Kemble name

jacky (View posts)
Posted: 8 Dec 2004 8:15PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: kemble
Hello,

My maidan name was Kemble, and on my grandfathers side, my grandfather was called William Charles Kemble, he was born in wales, england.

Re: Kemble name

Jenny Coyle (View posts)
Posted: 11 Dec 2004 2:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 12 Dec 2004 10:05AM GMT
Surnames: Kemble
Thanks for response. My side of the Kemble's that I am looking from originated in Gloucestershire.

Re: Kemble name

jacky (View posts)
Posted: 13 Dec 2004 9:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 14 Dec 2004 10:12AM GMT
Surnames: Kemble
Hello,
My grandfathers side came from mid glamorgan, not very faraway from where your side of the family came from.

Re: Kemble name

Jenny Coyle (View posts)
Posted: 19 Dec 2004 7:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Dec 2004 10:48AM GMT
Surnames: Kemble
Hi again. The person I am looking for is Charles Kemble born in Cheltenham in 1833 he married a lady by the name of Frances Maybank in 1858in Plumstead which at that time was in Ken.. They had 4 sons William (who is my great grandad who unfortunately I cannot find a birth certificate for although I know he was born in 1859), then Albert born 1862, Alfred born 1866 and Harry born 1869. My great grandfather William married Mary Anne Elmes in 1882. Is any of this relevant to your side of the search? Hope you have a great christmas. Thanks for your interest.

Re: Kemble name

Posted: 19 Apr 2005 11:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Apr 2005 6:49AM GMT
Surnames: Kemble
The surname is a locational name. Surnames or last names were started between 900 to 1060 AD. There are four common sources of surnames. One -- by parentage, eg.: Johnson or son of John,: in scandinvian, it is "sen", or in Irish Gaelic O, like in O'Malley, or Scottish Gaelic Mc or Mac, like in Mac Donald, or in Russian, it is the öv"or öff"at the end of a name. Two -- by occupation, such as Mr. Baker, Mr. Miller, Mr. Smith [blacksmith, tin smith, silver smith, etc]. Three by physical description, such as Mr. Large, Mr. Tall, etc. and finally fourth, by location, such as Mr. London, and Kemble is a village since Roman times in Gloucester County or as in old records called Gloucestershire. Kemble laid in the Roman's Fosse Way [a road]. The Fosse Way connected Glevum (now Gloucester0 to Silchester (now Reading) It lay near the border of this county and Wits County or Wiltshire.

The Village of Kemble has its own website -- I beleive it is Kemble1.uk.com. It is in the list if you do a search for KEMBLE on-line.

There is a published book about the Village of
Kemble entitled "Kemble, Ewern, and Pooles Keyes, Three Villages by the Infant Thames"compiled and edited by Christian Brann and published by Collectors'Books Limited, Bradley Lodge, Kemble, Cirencester, United Kingdom GL7 6AD [British Zip Code], copyright 1992, ISBN 1 957705 04 8. I purchaed a copy a few years ago for $25.00 US, but the British price then was 12.50 Pounds Sterling. I knew someone going there and they got it for me. I do not have any purchasing information to obtain this book. The book goes back to 577 BC, but does not mention the Camelos , a Norse God in mythology in relation to the present-day name of Kemble.

I had read once, but cannot quote the source that the name Kemble and the naming of the village had something to do with the Norse God Camelos. I have not taken the time to research Noris Mythology to learn who Camelos was or to re-confirm my earlier research into this bit of information..

This is all I known at this time on the origin of the name. The Kimble name is a mispelling of Kemble, BUT there is a surname "Kimble" who came from Germany, WHO ARE Kimbles. The German Kimbles did traveland migrate into the same areas as did the Kembles into the United States as they used a common means of travel.

Hope this helps and if anyone can add to my information, please tell me. I will appreciate any other knowledge on this subject. Thank you, James A.Crowley Kemble at jersey_jim_the_jerseyan@yahoo.com in the Pennsylvania, United States. Feel free to contact me directly as well as posting in here.

Re: Kemble name

Posted: 1 Feb 2010 6:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Kemble/Maybank/Elmes
Hi Jenny I really hope you are still looking at Ancestry as your message was posted some years ago. Harry is my Great Grandad!!!! I believe William had five children which branch are you? As for Charles I think there may be a link to a Fisher Kemble....Please get in touch regards Dave

Re: Re : Kemble name

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 8:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
Kemble is a Welsh-English surname from the area of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and Herefordshire. All bound on Wales, but Gloucestershire prior to the Wales Act of 1533 was part of Wales.

The old Anglo Saxon family name from which Kemble developed was Cynebald which is a Welsh name, what over the past few centuries has been intergrated with English blood roots. In Welsh, "Cyn" means chieftain and "bald" means war, thus the family meaning chieftain of war. The family motto is "Audaces fortune bravo" meaning Fortune favors the brave.

George of Wydell, received the coat of arm from William Camden, Claireaux-at-arms, under Queen Elizabeth I in the 1500's.

Hope this assists you in your research.

Sincerely,

James A. Crowley Kemble
NE Pennsylvania, USA
jersey_jim_the_jerseyan@yahoo.com
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