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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and Italian : occupational name from French, northern Italian sartor ‘tailor’ (Latin sartor).
  • English : topographic name denoting someone who lived on land which had been cleared for cultivation, Old French assart, essart ‘woodland cleared for cultivation’ + the habitational suffix -er.

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