Släkthistoria för Kempster
Kempster Vad efternamn betyder
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.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
