Proctor Family History
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Proctor Name Meaning
English (northern): occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (reduced 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Porter, Pastor, Doctor, Factor, Rocker, Crofton, Poston, Prior, Proto