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The handful of notices on www.familysearch.org point to a Norfolk England location. However this may refer to a single family. The name is extremely rare, if it survives at all in England.
This webpage -
http://norridge.me.uk/norfolk/nfkcult/part04.htm
on Norfolk dialect terms lists the word fillister as a local name for a carpenter's tool for cutting grooves.
Not much solid information here I know, but as I always say, you have to start somewhere.