Ship and Passenger Information:

Jo. Hogg, Master September [2], 1635
41 passengers listed by name and by age

Alsopp, Robert, 18
Bacon, Daniell, 30
Barber, William, 17
Barnes, Jonathan, 22
BARRON, Robert, 18
Bold, Margaret, 30
Bonfolly, Jo:, 21 [Possibly Bonfilly - dot above indistinct 5th letter.]
Brooman, Freese, 20
Brookes, Richard, 30
Browne, Edward, 25
Butler, Ger:,27 [Gertrude?]
Caton, Richard, 26
Chambers, Josua, 17
Crabbtree, Edward, 20
Dexter, Abell, 25
Feelding, Jo:, 19
Gorhie, Donough, 27
Granger, Thomas, 19
Hatton, William, 23
Jennings, Jane, 25
Jones, Elizabeth, 20
Jones, Tedder, 30
Kendall, Henry, 17
Lamb, Jo:, 22
Lloyd, David, 30
Lovett, Gurtred, 18
Mannington, Roger, 14
Melton, Henry, 23
Morris, Jo:, 26
Nunn, Thomas, 22
Nunnick, Addam, 25
Porter, Martha, 20
Poulter, Thomas, 31
Rogers, Mary, 20
Siggins, Thomas, 18
Spicer, Edward, 18
Spicer, Henry, 28
Stann, Jo:, 27
Steevens, Jo:, 19
Troope, Samuel, 17
Walker, Margaret, 20

"A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom by Mark Anthony Lower, 1860, says Aluric Camp or Campa was a champion at the time of Edward the Confessor. He says the name is doubtless connected with Kemp, and further that in Selkirkshire, Camp still means birsk, active, spirited. Under Kemp - Kempe he gives Jamieson's definition as: 1. A champion. 2. The idea of strength and uncommon size. 3. The champion of a party in controversy. In Scotland the verb to `kemp' means to strive in whatever way, especially in the harvest. Further in the Anglo-Saxon translation of the Gospels made about 1000 A.D., the word which in the Vulgate is `miles,' and in our version is `soldier,' is rendered `cempa.' Hence it appears that Kemp and Champion are closely allied if not identical.

"M. A. Lower in an early edition entitled An Essay on Family Nomenclature, 1849, vol. I, says Camp is simply an earthwork and that Kempe is a soldier, especially one who engaged in single combat. In this sense it is used in the works of Sir Walter Scott. A `kemper' is still used in Norfolk in the sense of a stout, hearty, old man - a veteran. And he again points out tha the Anglo-Saxon Cempa has supplied the surnames Camp, Champ, and Camper. Campion and Champion have come to us through the French, from the same root.

"A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames by Charles W. Bardsley, M.S., 1901, says Camp means: 1. Local, 'at the camp,' i.e., field. 2. Official, a 'soldier,' a form of Kemp. He says there was a Felicia in Camp in County Cambridge 1273, a William de Campo in County Oxford 1273, and Johannes de Kempe was mentioned by P.T. Hodeshire in 1379. William Campe and Mary Farmer married in London in 1584 and that Thomas Nash and Anne Camp married at St. Dionis Backchurch in 1699.

"Fred H. Kemp in A General History of the Kemp and Kempe Families of Great Britain and Her Colonies, published in London in 1902, states that the name Kemp is widely distributed in the British Isles, chiefly in the Eastern and Southern counties of England, notably Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Middlesex, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire. Further the popular etymology of Kemp is as the Anglo-Saxon word `Campa' - a champion in modern spelling. He lists the following spellings of the name: Kemp, Kempe, Kempt, Came and Campe.

"Mr. Kemp goes on to cite a number of early Kemp's as follows: John Kempe was Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England. HIs nephew, Thomas Kempe, was Bishop of London in 1449.

"[Note: In County of Suffolk by W. A. Copinger, LL.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.A., pub. London by Henry Sotheran, 1904, Vol. III, p.385: KEMP al KEMPE family of Cavendish from Finching-field. Pedigree. ADD 19138 (additional papers at the British Museum, London, Eng.); with arms. Harl(eian) 155, 1103, 1154, 1177, 1449, 1484, 1560, 1820; Tanner cclvii. 207; Rawl. B. 76, 393, 422, 429; Arms and quarterings. Tanner cclvii. 174. Genealogical notes. Rawl.B. 129, 319. Gipps's account of. S.I. viii. 176.- (The Publications of the Suffolk Institute), Inquis. p.m. of Robert Kempe. 18-19 Hen. VIII. D.K.R. 10 (Deputy Keeper's Annual Reports, 1840-1902), App. ii. p. 124 (Appendix) -Grant of land in Suffolk to Bartholomew Kempe and Edward Wiseman, 5 Eliz. 4 Pars O. Rot. 29. No Camp listed in surnames. B. Petty]

"William Kempe was Shakespeare's comedian, the celebrated dancer who danced from London to Norwich in nine days.

"John Kemp, weaver, settled at Carlisle about 1335. In this connection the author states that Kemp is an old spelling of comb and also is a techincal term used in connection with weaving denoting a bristly hair often found among wool.

"Stephen Kemp was fined for leaving the King's Court in 1127.

"Elizabeth, the daughter of Rovert Kemp, was Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth of York, the consort of Henry VII.

"Sir James Kempe, G.C.B. was Governor General of Canada from 1828-1830. He served under the Duke of Wellington in the war with Napoleon and was at the Battle of Waterloo.

"Another historian states that Kemp signifies a fighting man or champion and the name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word Cempa - a soldier.

"The nearest approach to Camp or Kemp in Domesday Book, which William the Conqueror had prepared in 1086 after the Norman Conquest of England, is de Campo. In Domesday and other ancient records prior to the period when surnames had come into general use, we find various descriptive terms relating to the place of abode or occupation. Instances are de Campo, de Campis, de Combes, or Combes and Campio, - in the sixteenth century these became the regular surname Camp, Kemp, etc.

"According to the Roll of the Battle Abbey, Radulphus de Campis held land at Wye from the Abbey.

"The family of John Kemp, the Cardinal Archbishop are known to have changed the spelling of their name from de Campis.

"Among County Essex, England wills is one dated 1539 of Henry Camp al Kamp of Nasing and another dated 1551 of John Camp al Kempe of the same place.

"In the Canterbury Probate Registers 1396-1496 the closest spelling is Combe.

"In County Norfolk, England Campe or de Campo is said to have given place to Kemp about 1270.

"As late as 1624 the auther of a will signed his name Thomas Campe, while his son witnessing the same document wrote Thomas Kempe.

"Many Kemps and Kempes in various parts of England claim descent from the Earls of Warwick who had the title of de Bello Campo (see also in County Suffolk by Copinger).

"Arnaldus de Campis was master of the Nights Hospitallers in 1160.

"The Media Research Bureau, Washington, D.C., gives the following on the subject: The name of Camp or Campe was derived in most cases from the location of its first bearer 'at camp or field,' but some historians assert that it was in some cases a variant of Kemp or Kempe, which means 'Warrior, Champion' and was derived from the occupation of its first bearers as soldiers. In ancient English and early American records the name appears in the various spellings of Campo, Campa, Kampe, Kamp, Kemp, Kempe, Campe, and Camp. Of these, the last-mentioned form is that most often found in America today, while that immeiately preceding it is also frequently in evidence.

"Families bearing this name were resident at early dates in the English Counties of Cambridge, Lancaster, Suffolk, York, Oxford, Essex, Howden, and London. They were, for the most part of the merchant and yeoman classes of great Britain.

"Among the earliest records of the name in England are those of Norman de Campo, who was living about the end of the twelfth century and who had a son named Roger; Felicia in Campo, of Cambridgeshhire, in the year 1273; Alan Kempe, whose name appears in the Hundred Rolls of the County of Suffolk in the year 1274; William de Campo, of Oxfordshire, about the same date; John Kempe, of Lancashire, in 1314; Johannes or John de Kempe or de Campe, of Howdenshire, in 1379; and Ricardus or Richard Kempe, of Yorkshire, about the same date.

"Of the family of the name early established in London, William Campe, of St. Dunstan-in-the West, was married at St. Peter Westcheap, in 1584, to Mary, daughter of Richard Farner, of the City of London; Thomas Campe, a native of Nasing, County Essex, yeoman, married Joane, daughter of Richard Hawkenett, of London, a weaver, in the year 1605; Thomas Campe, merchant taylor, of St. Thomas Apostle, London, was married at St. James Chapel-in-the Wall, near Cripplegate in the year 1611 to Elizabeth, Widow of Thomas Woodburne, of London, Haberdasher; Anne Camp was married in 1699 to Thomas Nash at St. Dionis, Backchurch; and in the early part of the following century Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Camp, was baptized at St. James, Clerkenwell, London.

"The first of the name in America, according to some historians, was one Thomas Campe, a native of Nasing or Nazing, County, Essex, England. He is said to have come to America in 1635 and to have settled in Gloucester County Virginia. The records of his immediate family or descendants, if any, are not available, but he is believed to have been closely related, probably a brother, to Nicholas Campe, the father of the first immigrant of the family to New England.

"Several coats of arms are described as having been granted to individuals of the name of Camp in County. Essex, England.

"We had planned to begin the Camp-Kemp Family History with Thomas Camp who was born February 8, 1716/17 in Virginia.

"However, in August 1961 additional information on the parents and grandparents of Thomas Camp (1716/17 - 1798) was received from Judge Zelma W. Price of Greenville, Mississippi. Judge Price stated that the majority of her infomation was taken from very old family records, most of which had been confirmed by Mrs. Sara Sullivan Ervin of Ware Shoals, South Carolina."

"William Campe in London married Mary Farmer in 1584, and they had issue: Lawrence Campe, Richard Campe, Nicholas Campe, and Thomas Camp. The marriage of the son, Richard Campe was recorded in the Church of St. Margaret in London in 1615. In 1637 in Nasing Parish, Essex County, England, Nicholas Camp and Thomas Camp, brothers were listed to Jury Duty. These two brothers came to America. Nicholas Camp settled in New England and became the ancestor of the Camps of that area.. Thomas Camp came to Virginia and became the ancestor of the Camps of the main part of the Camp families in the South. One branch of the southern Camps spring from Nicholas Campe who came to New England.

"Lawrence Camp was a member of the Great Charter of the Virginia Company granted by King James I, May 23, 1609 and was of the Company of the Honorable Drapers and Weavers. He made many donations to this infant Colony at Jamestown in Virginia and also took four shares in the company and then later took three other shares and each share allowed him to take lands of 100 acres per share. He took 700 acres in Gloucester County, Virginia. He also took shares in the New England Company.

"In England he endowed a fund in Cambridge University for the maintenance of poor scholars. He also gave 7000 pounds to found an Alms House in the parish of Friam Barnet in his home county in England. He was also the builder and patron of the church of All-Hallows-In-The-Wall where he was buried inside a vault in that church. Lawrence Camp was never married and upon his death, his estates came into the hands of his three brothers - Richard Campe got the estate in England; Thomas Campe the estate in Virginia; and Nicholas Campe the estate in New England. This Lawrence Campe had a special coat of arms.

"Mr. Andrea believed that Thomas Camp (born 1691), was a great nephew of Lawrence Camp."

It is conceivable that Mary Oldham did marry a James Tarpley. However, the numbers of records verifying the marriage to Mary Camp or Mary Oldham are virtually non-existant.  Judge Price was basing her information on what were "good family sources" and Ms. Macdonald is basing it on census, tax records, and known wills.  She gives no real proof of a recorded marriage any more than Judge Price.  She is largely using naming patterns and a few existing records and is making some leaps of faith about the longevity of James Tarpley.  According to Russ Williams' construction of Judge Price's research, Ms. Macdonald seems to have skipped one generation of the Tarpley family and merged two different James Tarpley documents into one individual.  According to her, James Tarpley, Jr. is born 8 May 1692 and dies in 1781 in Brunswick County at the age of 89. The first birth date does belong to James Tarpley (born 8 May 1692 North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia), in my records; but he, according to other researchers, died about 1765, perhaps in or near Charlotte County, Virginia. There is no will or record to verify this. He is, according to Judge Price, the James Tarpley who married Mary Camp 5 January 1733/34 in King and Queen County, Virginia. They, in turn, have a son, James Tarpley Jr. (born 21 July 1743 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia) , who is about the right age to have married but we have no wife listed for him.

The death date Ms. Macdonald uses for James Tarpley may be more accurately placed on James Tarpley, the son of William Tarpley (born 16 March 1695) who, in turn, was the son of James Tarpley and Mary Biddlecomb.  William Tarpley's wife is Mary.  It is possible that William may have married an Oldham.  This son of William, James Tarpley, seems to have married a ------ Williams, daughter of John Williams (born ca. 1701, died 1751) whose wife is Mary. Other early Tarpley deeds suggest that this James Tarpley's wife is Tabitha.  Some researchers have listed Tabitha as an Oldham. James and his wife Tabitha made a sale on September 30, 1779, to Drury Matthews in fee simple, of 200 acres of land in the parish of St. Andrews in Brunswick County, before Thomas Edmunds, William Walker, and John Hawkins, because it was convenient for her to travel to the courthouse to renounce her dower. Two of the men were to make sure that she did so voluntarily.  John Hawkins and William Walker reported to the court on January 30, 1781, that she did so. These documents do not make any references to any Oldham family in any capacity, even as a witness, whereas, you do find Hugh Williams listed. He seems to be a possible brother of Tabitha. Although Ms. Macdonald states that Hugh is not the brother of Mary Tarpley, he could be the brother of Tabitha since Winifred Tarpley is listed as a niece in his will of 30 October 1780. 

The Will (of my records) gives the death of James Tarpley I who is not disputed by either Judge Price or Ms. Mcdonald.  If the James Tarpley of my records existed there is no will to base his death date on.  The only usable Tarpley will of the approximate time period is the one argued by Ms. Macdonald to fit her 89 year old ancestor. This is the last Will and testimony  of James Tarpley found in Brunswick County, Virginia (Order Book 2 , p. 167) as  follows: 

Will of James Tarpley

In the name of God Amen        I  James  Tarpley  of the parish of Saint Andrews and County of Brunswick being of perfect sense and memory to make and ordain this my last will &Testament in manner and form following Imprimis I give and bequeath to my son John Tarpley one feather bed & such furniture as can conveniently be made, and my blacksmith tools that he has now in possession. Item I give and beqeath to my Daughter Winifred Tarpley one feather bed & furniture one cow & calf, my mother less colt, and my woman's saddle at my wife's death, one pewter dish and bason & six pewter plates and my chest of drawers.  Item I give and bequeath to my son William Tarpley my two work steers cart & wheels, great bible, casks of all kinds, and all my tools of all kinds not already given, Item  I give and bequeath to my sons Thomas & James Tarpley  to each of them one shilling.  Item  all the rest of my estate I lend to my loving wife during her natural life and at her death to be equaly divided between my following children, viz:  John, Charles, William and Winifred Tarpley,  Sarah Elmore, and Elizabeth Alling.  Item  I make and ordain constitute & appoint my two sons John and William Tarpley my whole & sole Executors of this my last will and Testament  In witness whereof I here-unto set my hand and Seal this 22d day of July 1780.  Item my will  desire is that my Estate be not appraised.

Signed Sealed published & 
declared in presence of 
Hugh Williams
Charles Matthis
Drury Matthis

The Will above does not make a reference to any Oldham connections but the Williams connection is made with Hugh Williams as a witness.   So even if this James Tarpley is the same person it still does not give an Oldham family connection. It does not have the correct children listed according to the North Farnham Parish records. The James Tarpley of my record doesn't have a child named Charles or William, and he does have a Mary that is not listed. It seems that this Will is better suited for James Tarpley, son of William Tarpley below.  

The James Tarpley below (born ca. 1752,  died 1791 of Russ Williams's records) is listed in the Will of William Tarpley and is the one with the references to the Oldham family in Brunswick County .  This James made his Last Will and Testament on 2 November 1791. It was proved 6 February 1792. He lived in Charlotte County, Virginia and named one of his sons Oldham Tarpley who married, Mary, widow of William Brown.  The will of this James Tarpley is quoted by Ms Macdonald as proof of the marriage of James Tarpley (born 8 May 1692) to Mary Oldham. Certainly, Winifred Tarpley , James's sister,  marries Isaac Oldham. The family lineation that I have below comes from the records of Russ Williams.   

  William Tarpley family

 William Tarpley  (son of James Tarpley I and Mary Biddlecombe)
born: 16 March, 1695*          died ? married Mary ______________

Mary Tarpley born December 7, 1723*   married George Taylor  (son of Simon Taylor) had five children
John Tarpley born Sep. 29, 1729*  died after 1782  married  a Starling or Tillman
James Tarpley born December 8, 1731*   died St. Andrews Parish, Brunswick County, Virginia 1780-81 married ______ Williams (daughter of John and Mary Williams) 
Hannah Tarpley born January 6, 1735 North Farnham Parish, Virginia* 
         
*childrens' birthdates listed in North Farnham Parish records [McGhan p. 457] 
           [records of Russ Williams]

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James Tarpley family

 James Tarpley (son of William Tarpley and Mary ___ )
born December 1731         died St. Andrews Parish, Bruswick County, Virginia 1780-81
married ______ Williams (daughter of John and Mary Williams)

John Tarpley    married  Agnes Moore 1 June 1775 Charlotte County, Virginia.
Winnifred Tarpley married Isaac Richard Oldham 29 December 1786 Brunswick County, Virginia

William Tarpley married Betty Almond, Jr. (daughter of John Almond) Jan. 1782 Charlotte County, Virginia
Thomas Tarpley married Milly Moore 16 October 1786 St. Andrews Parish, Brunswick County, Virginia (relative of Samuel Moore)
James Tarpley  born ca. 1752 died 1791 Cornwall County, Virginia married (?) possibly Mary Oldham
Charles Tarpley (resident of  Brunswick County, Virginia 1773) 
Sarah Tarpley married James Elmore died before 1804 , lived in Charlotte County, Virginia
Elizabeth Tarpley married _______ Alling
           [records of Russ Williams]

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James Tarpley family

 James Tarpley (son of James Tarpley and ____ Williams )
born about 1752          died 1791 Cornwall Parish, Charlotte County, Virginia
married ______ unknown (?) possibly an Oldham 

Mary Tarpley       married John Eudailey 1 October 1787 by Rev. Thomas Johnston
Elizabeth "Betsey" Tarpley ca. before 1806       married David Michael Miller 15 September 1791 by Rev. Edward Almond
William Tarpley died in Charlotte County, 1794       married Mary Oliver (daughter of John Olliver) 29 May 1792 
Robert "Robbin" Thomas Tarpley       married Jancy Gears 5 April 1799 Prince Edward County, Virginia (daughter of Thomas Gears)
John Tarpley
Oldham Tarpley       married Mary (widow of William Brown) June 1810 
Peterson Tarpley 
Nancy "Ann" Tarpley born 2 July 1768 Brunswick County       married Carloss Featherston 28 August 1794 
           [records of Russ Williams]

The Oldham connection may have gone back much earlier in the Tarpley and Oldham family than any of these researchers indicate.  The Kentucky Family Records, vol. 1 p. 65, lists the Tarpley Oldham  Bible. It has Tarpley Oldham born on August 24, 1765; no place of birth is given but he is supposed to have married Polly (his first wife died October 1812) in Franklin County, Virginia in 1790.  He died May 21, 1837, probably in Kentucky.  They had ten children, one son named Tarpley Oldham born March 9, 1800 who died in 1810 and another son, James Tarpley Oldham born February 20, 1816 who died February 13, 1893. This Tarpley Oldham could not be the child of Isaac Oldham and Winnifred Tarpley, the sister to James Tarpley, because they didn't marry until 1786 according to my records. 

The connection of James Tarpley (of my records) to the Mary Camp family is no easier to make.  Judge Price does seem to be developing a family with little to no presently available documentation.  What records she may have had have been lost in subsequent years.  None of this precludes the fact that any of these James Tarpleys may have had a first or second marriage to a Mary Oldham or that James Tarpley actually married a widowed Mary Oldham who may actually have been originally of the Camp family.   Ms. Macdonald has used deductive reasoning to come to her conclusion that this is the only possible explanation based on her discovery of only three Mary Tarpleys in Virginia. She states that there is twenty years difference in the ages of James and Mary. She also claims that Mary Oldham was born 25 June 1712 in Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, the daughter of John Oldham who lived in the same area as James Tarpley (son of James Tarpley and ____ Williams ). This means that our suspect James Tarpley was twenty years old when she was born. He could easily have been married and have raised other children before she was of marriagable age. It seems very reasonable to me, based on discoveries in my other families, that James could probably have had a second wife, or even a third wife, and a prior family within the twenty years difference, especially if he has the kind of virility and longevity Ms. Macdonald is projecting. Even Ms. Macdonald says "The younger James Tarpley seems not to have married before 1733." She seems to be using the marriage date that we have for Mary Camp, as the marriage date for Mary Oldham and all subsequent children, hers alone; and I have no earlier marriage date for James. The Will used to identify Mary Oldham as a Tarpley was not made until 29 January1765. 

Ms. Macdonald brings up an interesting series of coincidences and documents that do need to be fitted into the makeup of the Tarpley, Camp, and Oldham family history. But, based on present information in her records, conflicts over dates, and other researchers' best efforts, I am not convinced that we have all the facts or the correct individuals. The birth date of Mary, daughter of John and Sarah Oldham on June 25, 1712 comes from the North Farnham Parish records; but there is no marriage-record for either Mary Camp or Mary Oldham to a James Tarpley. The date of birth Ms. Macdonald uses is very troubling.  The elimination of this James Tarpley/Mary Camp marriage would drastically alter the ancestral line and elimnate the Tarpley/Brashear families. I need more proof, Bible records, marriage-records, or other Wills to nail this down. There are simply too many Tarpleys and Marys in the same region with the same names to make easy assumptions even if they are living on the same property.  Until such time as as firm documentation is found, I will maintain the Mary Camp marriage and family as listed.

1777, June 23 - James Tarpley (of Ms. Macdonald's records) is excused from paying further levies. No reason is given but it is theorized by Ms. Macdonald that it was due to his being eighty-five years of age. I have seen other examples for being excused, including being lame or injured. I would also have expected that he would have received this kind of excuse at an earlier age than eight-five since very few people survived to this ancient age at that time.   [Brunswick County, Virginia Order Book. 13, p. 156]

1779, March 6 - James Tarpley Sr.(of Ms. Macdonald's records), sold to William Tarpley all of Brunswick, 200 acres, for £100. James and Mary Tarpley were to have use of the plantation during their lifetimes. Thomas Tarpley was a witness.  [Brunswick Co., Virginia Deed Book. 13, p. 243]

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