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This interesting surname with spellings Seller, Sellar, Sellor, Sellars, Sellers, Sellors, etc. firstly may be a name for someone employed in the cellars of a great house or , deriving from the Anglo "celler" meaning "cellar". Secondly, it may be an occupational name for a saddler, deriving from the Anglo Norman French "seller" meaning "saddler". Thirdly, it may be an occupational name for a tradesman or merchant, from an agent derivative of the "sell(en)" "to sell" ( pre 7th Century "sellan" meaning "to hand over", "deliver"). Finally, it may be a name for someone who lived in a rough hut deriving from the Middle English "selle", Old English pre 7th Century "(ge)sell". The "s" denotes "son of".

List Ancestral records for:- Sellor

The surname dates back to the late 11th Century, (see below). Further recordings include one William Sellerarius (1185), "Records of the Templars in England in the 12th Century". London church records include Dorothie Sellers who married William Boswell on March 17th 1602, at St. Giles, Cripplegate, and Anna, daughter of Thomas Seller was on January 24th 1607, at St. Dunstan's, Stepney. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alriz Sellere, which was dated 1086, in the Inquisitio Eliensis of Cambridgeshire, during the reign of King William 1,known as "", 1066 - 1087. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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