1524 subsidy returns for Suffolk
Carlford Hundred
- Newborn: Thomas Kembyl in goods £30.
- Newborn: John Kembyl in wages £1.
Cosford Hundred
- Hadleigh: John Kembill, 10 marks.
- Hitcham: Henry Kembold £18
- Hitcham: Thomas Kembolde the elder £10.
- Hitcham: John Kembolde the elder £2.
- Hitcham: Henry Kembolde junr in wages £1.
- Hitcham: Thomas Kembolde in wages £1.
From Suffolk in 1524: Subsidy Return, Suffolk Green Books No. X.
The Ship-money returns for the county of Suffolk, 1639-40
Cosford Hundred
- Hitcham: Thomas Kembolde, 1s.
- Nedging: Robert Kembould, 2s.
Fordham
- Beckenwath (Beck Row?): Philip Kenballe, 1s.
Thedwastre
- Felsham: William Kembole, 6s 6d.
- Pakenham: William Kemball, 9d.
- Rattlesden: George Kembold, 5s.
- Rattlesden: George Kemball, 2s 6d. “to be eased from these several assessments.”
From book of same title ed Vincent B Redstone, 1904, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History.
Essex Hearth Tax Returns, 1670
Lexden Hundred
- Ardleigh: Henry Kemball, 1 hearth.
- Ardleigh: John Kemball, 1 hearth.
- Wivenhoe: Thomas Kemball, 1 hearth. Poor person, discharged by certificate.
[Perhaps not surprising that the only Kemballs in Essex who appear in this record lived in an area close to the border with Suffolk.]
From Essex Hearth Tax Return Michaelmas 1670, eds. Catherine Ferguson, Christopher Thornton, Andrew Wareham. The British Record Society, 2012.
Suffolk Hearth Tax Returns, 1674
Blackbourne
- Elmswell: John Kemball, 2 hearths.
- Ixworth Thorpe: Robert Kimball, 2 hearths.
- Ixworth Thorpe: Thomas Kimball, 4 hearths.
Colneis
- Kirton: Richard Cambolt, 1 hearth. Burnt down.
Cosford
- Bildeston: James Kemball, 6 hearths.
- Hitcham: Thomas Kemball, 1 hearth.
- Hitcham: William Kemball, 2 hearths.
- Hitcham: Jar. Kemball [presumably Jeremy/Jeremiah], 1 hearth.
- Hitcham: Thomas Kemball, 3 hearths.
- Hitcham: James Kemball, 4 hearths.
- Kersey: George Kemball, 1 hearth.
- Kersey: John Kemball, 6 hearths.
Samford
- Stutton: Richard Kemball, 1 hearth.
Stow
- Stowmarket: Thomas Kimball, 2 hearths.
- Stowmarket: Widow Kemball, 1 hearth. Certified for.
Thedwastre
- Felsham: Richard Kemball, 3 hearths (with Daniel Mount)
- Rattlesden: Stephen Kemball, 5 hearths.
- Timworth: John Kemball, 4 hearths (with John Hayward and Benjamin Spere). Certified for.
From Suffolk in 1674, being the Hearth Tax Returns. Suffolk Green Books, No. XI, Vol. 13, 1905.
Suffolk Churchyard Inscriptions Copied from the Darby transcription c1825-34.
- Stoke-by-Nayland, Babergh Hundred: Philippa Gurdon, relict of Parker Gurdon, Rector of Cranworth in Norfolk, and daughter of George Clarke late Rector of Raydon in Suffolk, died 11 April 1779 aged 65; two of her grandchildren Eliza and Philippa Kemball died in infancy [Part 1, Vol XV pt 1 Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, 1913. Elizabeth Kemball, an infant, was buried in Stoke-by-Nayland in 1777, and Philippa Kemball, another infant, in 1779. They were both daughters of Vero Kemball and his wife Letitia.]
- Falkenham, Colneis Hundred: Headstone “Kemball” [no other info, just that a headstone with that surname was recorded there by Darby. Part II, Vol XVII pt 2 Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, 1920. Suffolk FHS’s Suffolk burial index records four Kemball burials in Falkenham: 1679, Richard son of Richard and Ann; 1695 Richard; 1730 Margaret wife of Thomas of Walton, yeoman; 1751 Thomas of Walton. It seems plausible that the headstone is Margaret and/or Thomas’s.]
- [Part III doesn’t have a name index, but no Kemballs recorded in Felsham, Rattlesden etc.]
- See the main list of Kemball sources on the Kemball landing page for links to more Kemball headstones.
Research notes
- Thomas of Wivenhoe, with 1 hearth: there’s several baptisms in Wivenhoe for children of Thomas and Mary Kemball between 1689 and 1681.
- Richard of Felsham with 3 (shared) hearths: presumably testator of SRO will Richard Kemball of Felsham, probated 1694.
- Stephen of Rattlesden with 5 hearths: presumably testator of the SRO will Stephen Kemball of Rattlesden, hoopmaker, probated 16 March 1688/9. Although that’s a lot of hearths for a hoopmaker.
- Thomas of Stowmarket with 2 hearths: presumably the testator, or father of the testator, of SRO will Thomas Kemball of Stowmarket, chairmaker, written 22 Jan 1705/6.
- John of Elmswell with 2 hearths: presumably something to do with the William Kemball, who was “of Elmswell” when he married Sarah Spencer in Tostock in 1679. When Willam wrote his SRO will in 1705, he mentioned property he owned in Elmswell. He may also be something to do with Dorothy Kemball of Elmswell, “spinster”, who wrote her will in 1695. She doesn’t mention any Kemballs, only married daughters and their husbands, so I do wonder if “spinster” is an error and it should be “widow”.