Agnes Birdsall

• Evidence needed to support as child of William Kempe & Agnes Kempe
• Parents also seen as Stephen Kempe & Agnes Alexander

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Agnes Kempe and Henry Birdsall married on 09 Apr 1610 at Saint Stephen, Norwich, Norfolk, England. They had three known children together; Judith, Anne and Nathan.

Henry Birdsall, son Nathan and daughter Judith are estimated by Anderson’s Great Migration Project to have arrived in Boston in 1635. He died before 17 Sep 1651 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. There is no record in the Colony of a wife for him.

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On 9 Apr 1610 Henry Birdsall married Agnes Kempe in St. Stephen’s, Norfolk. Agnes died in England ca 1630.

Their children include:

1. Judith Birdsall (ca Jun 1611-11 Sep 1689) In Jun 1639 Judith married Henry Cook in Salem, MA
2. Anne Birdsall (ca May 1616-) no further information.
3. Nathan Birdsall (ca Sep 1620-1696) Nathan was baptized in St. Andrew’s, Norwich, on 3 Sep 1620. Nathan died in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York in 1696. Nathan married Temperance.

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Disputed Origins

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kempe-32

Agnes has been connected with William Kempe as her father and Agnes Giles as her mother. As of this posting (June 2018) a connection to William Kempe has not yet been located. She has been detached from William Kempe and Agnes Giles as parents until/unless proof is located (15 May 2020).

The following appears to be an attempt to tie Agnes Kempe who married Henry Birdsall with a specific baptism and father, but Egham (birth place below) is 143 miles from St Stephens Norwich (marriage location).: Baptismal 26 Dec 1590 (Egham, St John, Surrey, England; Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812). Daughter of William Kempe.

Name Agnes Kempe
Gender Female
Event Type. Marriage
Marriage Date 3 Oct 1595
Marriage Place Rushall, Norfolk, England
Spouse William Kempe

References

• "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N2WM-ZMY : 10 December 2014), Henry Birdsall and Agnes Kempe, 09 Apr 1610; citing Saint Stephen,Norwich,Norfolk,England, reference ; FHL microfilm 993,969, 993,970.
• Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,4296::0
• Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Anglican Parish Registers 1,4790::0
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,61045::0
• Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; Reference: PD 484/1 1,61045::903998438
• New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-6 Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB114/i/7051/301/235167250
• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. 1,7486::0 Place: Boston, Massachusetts; Year: 1635; Page Number: 301
• Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003.Original data: Sanborn, Me
• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr01/rr01_137.html#P12...
• http://stagge-parker.blogspot.com/2011/05/henry-birdsall.html