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The sexton Surname

sexton Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a sexton or churchwarden, from Middle English sexteyn ‘sexton’ (Old French secrestein, from Latin sacristanus).
  2. 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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Distribution of sexton Families in the US in 1920
Number of sexton families
 185-368
 62-184		 1-61
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Obit Carl E. Sexton circulating 0
Sextons of Montreal, Canada Patrick Boylan 5
Dean Sexton "Living" JakeBrooks224 0
Mary Catherine sexton raider158 0
sexton family in crenshaw co,al, kathyl57091 1
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obit James Sexton Louisville KY LaDonnaEstes 2
William Pinkney Sexton/Mary Yates Sexton Henshaw KimSullivan135 0
geneology SharonSexton96 5
Sexton's of Morrow Co.- Marion Co., Ohio soty59 4
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