Kempster Family History
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 2nd edition, 2022