Surname origin
'Manager, agent'; 'Attorney in a spiritual court'
Johanna le Proketour 1301 Subsidy Roll Yorkshire.
 A Dictionary of English Surnames by P H Reaney. OUP revised third edition 1997. 019860092-5

Sarah PROCTOR (1712?- 1759) was the wife of  Richard WEST
( -1751) husbandman of Burpham, Sussex.
They were married at Findon on 15 April 1734.

Commentary:  The marriage was by licence and was signed by a Ralph BULL.  
There is an admon. for a Ralph BULL of Slaugham in 1763.
On this slender evidence I have ascribed a baptism to Sarah as the daughter of William and Anne Proktor on 26th February 1712 at Slaugham.
(Also Proctor +var is not common in this part of the world).

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