When Joannes van Kempen was christened on 8 October 1731, in Limburg, Netherlands, his father, Jacobus Van Kempen, was 23 and his mother, Elisabeth Homme, was 19.
German: habitational name from any of various places called Kempen, in the Rhineland, Ruhr, and Schleswig-Holstein, or from Kempno in Poland (Polish Kępno).
Flemish: habitational name for someone from the Kempen, a region in the north of Belgium and in the southeast of the Dutch province of North Brabant.
Dutch: variant of Van Kempen .
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