Bill,
Welcome to the list.
I am descended from Samuel CAMPION & Martha BARNARD who were married at
Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire, England on 21 January 1701/2
They had 7 children between 1705 & 1722. Their youngest, my ancestor,
Richard's 1722 birth was registered as KAMPKIN & the 1713 & 1715 births were
registered as CAMKIN.
I believe that in the days of Oliver CROMWELL, if your name was CAMPION &
especially if you were a Catholic the penalty was beheading! So they were
often changing their name & their religion. No wonder we have such a hard
time researching the CAMPION name.
Richard KAMPKIN b. 1722 married Elizabeth Bird at Hardwick, Cambridgeshire,
England on 11 Jan 1756 & their 6 children were registered as CAMPION.
Other spellings I have come across are, CAMKIN, CAMPEN, CAMPIN & CAMPKIN.
Richard KAMPKIN b. 1831 Hardwick, Cambridgeshire, England came to New South
Wales (NSW), Australia, in April 1851.
In 1853 he married an Irish lass, Mary DILLON, the daughter of a Soldier in
the 28th Gloucestershire Regiment. They settled in Muswellbrook, NSW &
assisted in populating Australia by producing 13 CAMPION children, some
descendants are still in Muswellbrook.
Helen
in Sydney, NSW Oz
----- Original Message -----
From: "William A. Campion, Sr." <campionsr(a)juno.com>
To: <CAMPION-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [CAMPION] Web Sites
Hi to all the CANPION listers
My name is William A. Campion, Sr.. Bill to all please. I'm
trying to trace my family name back to Normandy, France where it started!
As a lot of you already know , CAMPION is not an easy name to track . I
have been working over nine years and I now have them back to about
1600'S although it's not all proven. I do have a lot of names on file
with hopes of matching them to families and maybe back to Normandy,
France.
If anyone has any Campion's from Nfld., Canada, Mass. or
Illsington and Bovey Tracey areas of Devon, England, I would love to hear
from you.
I wish you all "A Very Happy New Year" and may it stay "Happy
All Year Long "!
Bill Campion
Berlin, Maryland,USA.
campionsr(a)juno.com
RESERCHING:
CAMPIN, CAMPING, CAMPION, LEWIS, SOPER, GREENSLADE, BOURG, DAIGRE,
GRANGER, LANDRY, MARTIN, AUCOIN, LaPanne, MICHAUD, RABIDEAU, BETTERS
THERIOT, TERRIOT, LASSOR, LANOUE, LaFrancis, KENNEDY, DUBE, DUPUIS,
GAUDET
BABINEAU-DESLAURIERS, DOUCET, GUILBAULT, RABIDEAU,RICHARD
SIMMONS, SIMMONDS.
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