CAMP

CAMP. Aluric Camp or Campa Avas a Domesd. tenant in the eastern counties. Kelham supposes that he was a champion ; but he had held under Edward the Confessor, and, as Ellis observes, the offtce of champion does not occur so early. It is doubtless connected with Kemp, which see. In Selkirkshire, camj) still means " brisk, active, spirited." Jamieson.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.