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Thomas Read Kemp

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Thomas Read Kemp

Notes and queries: where is he buried?

Query:
I am going on a trip to Paris soon and would be most grateful if anybody could give me any information on where Thomas Kemp's final resting place is located.
From K Underhill
Sent to website by e-mail on 20-10-03

Response 1

According to http://www.kemptown.net/history.htm Thomas Kemp was "Buried in Pière-la-chaise graveyard". This is actually Pière-Lachaise cemetery, where hundreds of famous artists, writers, musicians, statesmen etc. lie buried; I suppose most famously (from a British perspective) Oscar Wilde. It is a major tourist attraction and covers many acres, however, with hundreds of gravestones, memorials and mausolea, and you could easily spend all day searching without success. You could perhaps try contacting the authorities there to see if they have an index of burials - good luck.
From Philip Rance
Sent to website by e-mail on 20-10 -03

Response 2

According to Tim Carder, Thomas Read Kemp died on 20 December 1844 at 64 Rue de Fauborg Saint-Honore and is buried at Pière-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
From Sue Craig
Sent to website by e-mail on 20-10-03

Response 3

I was told it was in Pière-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. I spent all of a bitterly cold day on Jan 1st 1999 tramping miles around it with two different (and not free!) burial plans. All to no avail...but a great place all the same!
From Geoffrey Mead
Sent to website by e-mail on 21-10-03

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

I'd be very interested to know where this picture is from and are there any other images of him?

By David Kemp (10/01/2007)

I photographed his monument in Pere la Chaise, having tracked down its precise location via the Mairie de Paris archives. It is in better condition than that of his second wife Fanny who is buried in Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells, and who must have erected the Paris monument as she was with him and their small son in Paris when he died. I am keen to find out more about her life
I took a look at 64 rue Faubourg St Honore which is right opposite the British and American Embassies but (unless the street has been renumbered) that particular edifice seems to have been rebuilt, perhaps after the ravages of war

By June Bridgeman (01/08/2008)

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