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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place called Kempsey in Worcestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Chemesege, from an Old English personal name Cymi + ēg ‘island’, ‘area of dry land in a marsh’.

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