Last name: PROCTOR
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PROCTOR : This last name is indexed 170,547 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PROCTOR : English (northern): occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (shortened from Old French procurateour Latin procurator ‘agent’ from procurare ‘to manage’). The term was used most commonly of an attorney in a spiritual court but also of other officials such as collectors of taxes and agents licensed to collect alms on behalf of lepers and enclosed orders of monks.
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