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Tableter Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the tabler' or 'the tableter,' a maker of tables or tablets for putting down daily expenses, &c, of slate, wax, &c.

'A pair of tables all of ivory, And a pointel, polished fetisly, And wrote alway the names as he stood.

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Tableter Surname Meaning

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This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the tabler' or 'the tableter,' a maker of tables or tablets for putting down daily expenses, &c, of slate, wax, &c.

'A pair of tables all of ivory, And a pointel, polished fetisly, And wrote alway the names as he stood.': Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. 7323-5.

'Item, the same daye paied to John the hardewarman for ... 2 coffers, a payer (pair) of tabulles and chesses, ... etc.': Privy Purse Expenses, Henry VIII.

Roger Tablour, c. 1300. Writs of Parliament.

Bartholomew le Tabler, ibid.

Richard le Tableter, ibid.

Geoffrey le Tableter, Close Rolls, 19 Edward II. pt.

Bartholomew le Tableter, London. Riley's Memorials of London.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

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