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The Kuster
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The Surname of Custer
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A Custer
Coat of Arms
(Dutch)*
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A Custer
Coat of Arms
(English)*
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A Coster
Coat of Arms
(Dutch)*
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A Coster
Coat of Arms
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A Coster
Coat of Arms
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Custer - America
Americanized spelling of German
Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster). English: variant of Coster.
Kuster (also Küster or Köster) -
German
The name Kuster is a status name
for a sexton or churchwarden, Middle High German kuster (Late Latin
custor ‘guard’, ‘warden’). The umlaut of the modern form is due to
association with other agent nouns in -er, from Old High German -ari
(Latin -arius).
Kušter - Slovenian
The name Kušter is a nickname for a
person with disheveled hair, from kušter ‘tuft of hair’, ‘towhead’.
Coster - English
The name Coster is a metonymic
occupational name for a grower or seller of costards (Anglo-Norman
French, from coste ‘rib’), a variety of large apples, so called for
their prominent ribs. In some cases, it may have been a nickname
(from the same word) for a person with an apple-shaped (i.e. round)
head.
Coster -
Dutch
The name Coster is a status name
for a churchwarden, from Late Latin custor ‘guard’, ‘warden’.
Variant spelling of German Koster.
Partly taken from:
Dictionary of American Family Names,
Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
* Coat of Arms belonged to
families and/or individual persons. People with the Surname
of Custer came from England, Germany, the Netherlands & many
other places. Custer from a different countries would have
a different Coat of Arms.
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The Custer
family members listed in the
U.S. Census
for the
State of
Pennsylvania, Cambria County
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