Kempster Family History
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Kempster Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a wool or flax comber, Middle English kem(be)stere (an agent derivative of Old English cemban ‘to comb’). Although this was originally a feminine form of the masculine kembere, by the Middle English period the suffix -stre had lost its feminine force, and the term was used to refer to both sexes. Compare Baxter, Brewster, Dexter.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Dempster, Kemler, Kemper, Kempner, Kempler, Webster, Koster, Leister