When Ezekiel Blomfield Proctor was born in 1802, in Wymondham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Proctor, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Blomfield, was 29. He married Maria Blyth on 25 April 1823, in Wymondham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1875, in Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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English (northern): occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (shortened 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.
History: John Proctor (died 1757) was a prominent citizen of Boston, MA, and is buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground there.
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