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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : perhaps from Old French estier, ‘canal’, designating someone living near a canal; or perhaps a variant of Astier or Hatier. This name is sometimes Americanized as Achy.
  • A family so named from Limoges settled in Montreal before 1670.

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