Emeline (Kempe) Scott (abt. 1513 - 1541)

Born about 1513 in Kent, England

Ancestors

Wife of Reynold Scott — married before 1535 (to about 1541) in Kent, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1541 at about age 28 in Scotts Hall, Kent, England

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Biography

Emmeline Kempe, who married Sir Reynold Scott (c.1511 - 16 December 1554) of Scott’s Hall in Smeeth, Kent, probably before 1535 as her son Thomas came into his estates in 1556, suggesting he was of age then.^[1] They had one son, Sir Thomas Scott (c.1537 – 30 December 1594), who married Elizabeth Baker, daughter of Sir John Baker (c.1489–1558), Speaker of the House of Commons, and two daughters, Katherine Scott, who married John Baker (c.1531-c.1604), son of Sir John Baker (c.1489–1558), Speaker of the House of Commons, by whom she was the mother of the chronicler, Sir Richard Baker (c.1568–1645), and Anne Scott, who married Walter Mayney (d.1577) of Spilsill manor, Staplehurst, Kent.

Emmeline Kempe died before 1542, at which date Sir Reynold Scott married secondly, Mary Tuke, the daughter of Sir Brian Tuke (d.1545) of Layer Marney, Essex, by Grissell Boughton (d.1538), daughter of Nicholas Boughton of Woolwich. (See Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., 2011, Vol. IV, pp. 1-3; the ODNB articles on Sir John Baker (c.1489-1558), Sir Richard Baker (c.1568- 1645), and Sir Brian Tuke; and the History of Parliament entry for John Baker (c.1531- c.1604) at John Baker.)^[2]

Father Sir William Kempe, Sheriff of Kent1,7,8,4,9,6 b. 1487, d. 28 Jan 1539

Mother Eleanor Browne1,7,8,4,9,6 b. c 1485

Emelyn Kempe was born circa 1517 at of Ollantigh, Wye, Kent, England.10 She married Sir Reginald Scott, Sheriff of Kent, Captain of Calais & Sangatte, son of Sir John Scott, Sheriff of Kent, Burgess of New Romney and Anne Pympe, before 1537; They had 1 son (Sir Thomas) and 2 daughters (Katherine, wife of John Baker; & Anne, wife of Walter Mayney).1,7,3,4,5,6 Emelyn Kempe died before 1542.4,6

Family

Sir Reginald Scott, Sheriff of Kent, Captain of Calais & Sangatte b. c 1512, d. 16 Dec 1554

Children

Sir Thomas Scott, Sheriff of Kent+1,4,6 b. c 1537, d. 30 Dec 1594

Catherine Scott11,1 b. c 1540 See Will for Reginald Scott for more Children https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/178/mode/2up/search/Reginald+Scott

Sources

1. ↑ History of Parliament Online, entry for 'SCOTT, Sir Thomas (c.1535-94), of Scot's Hall, Smeeth, Kent'
2. ↑ THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/43/638, p. 3

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. vol. IV, pages 279-280, OLLANTIGH 14, Eleanor Brown.
• “Scott of Scots Hall”, by James Renat Scott, F.S.A., London, 1876.