Proctor Family History
- 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
- 1,552,553 Historical Documents with Proctor on Ancestry
- 471,071 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 308,654 Census and Voter Lists
- 49,827 Military Records
- 30,664 Immigration Records
- 692,337 Member Trees
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Number of Proctor families
 789 - 1,575  264 - 788 |
 1 - 263  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Proctor families
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79 - 156 27 - 78 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Proctor census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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