Last name: DUNSTER
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DUNSTER : This last name is indexed 25,140 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DUNSTER : English: habitational name from Dunster in Somerset recorded in 1138 as Dunestore from the Old English personal name Dun(n) + torr ‘craggy pinnacle’.
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