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castor Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places called Caistor, in Lincolnshire and Norfolk, Caister in Norfolk, or Castor in Cambridgeshire, all named with Old English cæster ‘Roman fort or town’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the castor family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of castor Families in the US in 1920
Number of castor families
 47-92
 16-46		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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