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Subject: Fillister
Author: bluray   (Authenticated as bluray)
Date: July 27, 2012 at 8:21:30 AM
Fillister was a term for a specialised form of carpentery and relates to the tool used for carving.

Therefor it would seem to be an occupational name, as in Carpenter.

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