Well, That's certainly a more sophisticated explanation than mine. Thanks,
maybe I should watch where I'm stepping from now on, or just ask questions
from the fence line, Jean.
Thanks for your input.
----- Original Message -----
From: <jpcamp(a)easynet.fr>
To: <CAMP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [CAMP-L] Camp/Kemp name
If I understand you are looking for the origin of the name?
Normally, CAMP is derived from austrian word KEMPF (fighting) (bad
word in nazi area!)
KEMPF gave KEMP and CAMP
CAMPS is a latin word from CAMPUS (the field)
Jean Pierre CAMP (Paris france)
>Hell'o;
>I wondered about the origin of the name "Camp."
>Does anyone really know where the name came from?
>30 years ago as a young college student in Springfield, MO. I met a man
who
>was a builder of some of the finest homes in that area. He had
been in
the
>underground as a small boy in Germany during WWII, and when the
war ended
>his family was secretly relocated in the US. Their past was protected
for
>20 years to insure their safety. They were obviously important
to the US
>government for their part as guerilla insurgent leaders during the war.
As
>a boy it was his job to play around Nazi Ammunition dumps till he
was
more
>or less accepted as a part of the daily routine among the guards.
When
the
>time was right he would chase his "Hoop" into the dump
and drop
explosives
>set to go off after he left.
>Hank said to me one day with his rich foreign accent. "Dafe, Do you know
>vat der name 'Camp means in der olt country?"
>I answered, "no, I did not know"
>"Vell it means 'cow pasture' or 'cow pen,' It vas der liddle
pen out the
>back door ver day kept der milk cow in der olt days."
>I have never been offered a better explanation and the genuineness and
>impeccable character of the man makes him believable to this day. I do
not
>know where our name originated, but I can tell you that among the
'olt'
>Germans of Europe and to Hank, it meant "fresh milk" every day.
>Dave Cowpasture or Dave Cowpen, for short
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <JerryKaye(a)aol.com>
>To: <CAMP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
>Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 3:35 PM
>Subject: [CAMP-L] Camp/Kemp name
>
>
>> Virginia, I cannot really give you a good history of the CAMP/KEMP
names,
>but
>> I can tell you that in earlier centuries the spelling of names was not
>nearly
>> so fixed as it is today. People who could write usually spelled names
>(and
>> other words) the way they sounded to them. This, of course, led to
many
>> variant spellings of names. Sometimes a name would even be
spelled
two or
>> three different ways in the same document.
>>
>> When you do research you have to consider all the possible variant
>spellings
>> of the names you're looking for. For example, I have found the name
>PARNELL
>> spelled as PERNAL, POURNEL, PURNAL, etc. Sometimes the spellings of
names
>> changed as they were anglicized from other languages. For
example,
the
>> German name VOLMAR became VOLLMER, FOLLMER, FULMORE,
FULMER, etc.
>>
>> While the names CAMP and KEMP are two separate names today with their
own
>> fixed spellings, in earlier centuries they were usually
considered to
be
>the
>> same name and were simply spelled differently depending on the fancy
of
>the
>> person who was writing the document.
>>
>> Kaye Stoneking
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 9/23/00 4:05:07 PM, vdach(a)gte.net writes:
>>
>> << Can somebody tell me when, where and why the Camp name became
Kemp?
>>
>>
>> Virginia >>
>>
>>
>>