Sexton Family History
Sexton Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a sexton or churchwarden, from
Middle English sexteyn ‘sexton’ (Old French secrestein,
from Latin sacristanus).Irish (Munster and midlands):
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seastnáin ‘descendant
of Seastnán, Seasnán’, a personal name meaning
‘bodyguard’, from seasuighim ‘to resist’, ‘to defend’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sexton
Name Distribution of Sexton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sexton families
 335 - 667  112 - 334 |
 1 - 111  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sexton families
|
15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sexton Family Origin
Sexton Emigration Information (US)
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Sexton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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