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Trying to link up my extended Kempster family from Pitstone, Marsworth, Wingrave, Wing, Cublington, Aylesbury Chesham, Amersham, Leighton Buzzard etc with the family of both Ernest D A 'Smiling Jim' Kempster and 1 of the 2 Kempster families now in S Wales who I have traced back to Great Gaddesden, Herts in 18th century, thence further to Thomas Kempster b in/pre 1720 who married Sarah Field 7/11/1738 Hemel Hempstead area, poss Tring. It's possible he was the Thomas bapt May 1720 Tring + buried 13/6/1780 Gt Gaddesden, whose father was also Thomas. Does anyone know a) if this is correct; if so b) where did Thomas senior come from; or c) was the Thomas who married Sarah different and where he came from. I am hoping this is person is the link with my Kempster family in Pitstone, Marsworth, Wingrave, Wing, Cublington, Aylesbury etc. We know there is a direct link as my gndfather and Smiling Jim were great friends and knew each other to be cousins and I met and got to know a S Wales Kempster who had the same family stories.

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Is that Reuben b 1827/8, parents James + Hannah ?

If this is Joseph Kempster b 13/5/1814 Chesham, Bucks then he + his family are on my tree. In 1861 he was  master of barge Confidence with his wife Jane nee Leaver + children moored at/near Uxbridge, Middx on the Grand Union Canal or a branch canal. They had 6 children and later ran a shop in Ladbroke Grove, W London.  He died there 1902. If so, then I have more details

There were 3 Joseph Kempsters all b same area same time - c1787 - and all related in one way or another, with children  incl same names. One of these Josephs married Mary Griffin ........ with children incl at least Mary, Joseph, Jane and - William b 4-6/1825 Haresfoot, Northchurch, Berkhamsted, Herts, d 4-6/1896 Bedford He was a Saddler + Harnessmaker who married Ann Seamons Simmons 10-12/1844 Gt Gaddesden, Herts, with children Elizabeth b4-6/1843 Berkhamsted - d1856 Aston Clinton, Bucks + Thomas b1-3/1852 Aston Clinton, Bucks who d 4-6/1909 Walthamstow, NE London. Ann S S was b 1824/5 Aylesbury, Bucks + d 1-3/1852 or 1-3/1857 Gt Gaddesden or Berkhamsted. William, after a short stay with his son in Taunton, Somerset c1861 married Rebecca Ashley Ellis, 10-12/1869 St Pancras, London. She was b Wootton, Bedford 10-12/1837 + d there 1-3/1888. William d Bedford 4-6/1896. They had dtr Mary Griffin Kempster b 7/1870 Wootton, Bedford who married William R Bateman (b1856) 7-9/1916 Bridlington, Yorks + d there 1-3/1946 (no children). Thomas K married Emma Green (b1-3/1847 or 10-12/1849 Bedford, d 10-12/1912 Walthamstow) 4-6/1876 Bedford. They had children Henrietta Emma b Cheam, Surrey c3/1877, Nelly Selina b Walthamstow 7-9/1879, Harry Thomas b+d 1880 and Sidney John b Walthamstow 8/2/1885 - I have their marriages + (few) descendants.