Reference
X297
Title
Deposit of the late Mr Arthur John Kempster (c1880-1965)
Date free text
1596-1965
Production date
From: 1596 To: 1965
Archival history
The bulk of the collection relates to the Howbury estate in Renhold. These documents were apparently given to Mr Kempster by a Mr Glassby. Mr Kempster appears to have been a keen local historian, parish councillor, and had also been employed as an estate and house carpenter on the Howbury Estate (1911 census), which probably explains why the documents were given and kept by Mr Kempster before they were deposited in the Bedfordshire Record Office in the early 1960s. Mr Kempster married Laura Seabrook in 1903 and the couple had at least two children, Hilda (born 1908) and Horace Hack (born 1912).
Level of description
fonds