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Re: The Meaning Of My Surname Please.
by Lucille (guest)
10/12/2002, 6:05 PM
in reply to a message by My name is God but you can call me Jona
If my memory serves me right, 'Sexton' most likely means 'six towns'. 'Sex' comes from the Latin word for 'six' (6) and 'ton' means 'town.'

Regards,

Lucille
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- sarah (guest)
4/29/2003, 1:01 PM
please could you fing the meaning of my surname for me my surname is HEYES!!
thank you
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- Reg Niles (guest)
10/17/2002, 1:05 AM
I have no argument with Lucille since I do not know the meaning of the surname SEXTON. However, I did look it up in “New Dictionary of American Family Names,” by Elsdon C. Smith, published 1973. Page 461 has two definitions, the first being ". . . an under-officer of a church . . ." and the other being a variant of SAXTON, which is defined on page 448, referring to place names in England.

SEXTON is also discussed on page 189 of “English Surnames : Their Sources and Significations,” by Charles Wareing Bardsley. Published 1873, reprinted 1968.

Reg Niles
RegNMINiles@cs.com
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