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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Proctor Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Proctor families
 169 - 336  57 - 168 |
 1 - 56  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Proctor families
|
789 - 1,575 264 - 788 |
1 - 263 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Proctor families
|
79 - 156 27 - 78 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Proctor Family Origin
Proctor Immigration Information
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Proctor Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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