The surname ‘Starr’ originates from England. It is derived from the nickname from the Middle English word ‘sterre’, ‘starre’, meaning star (Old English ‘steorra’). The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the name denoted someone with a streak of white hair. It is possibly also a house name, for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a star. Compiled information from Historical and Private archive’s has confirmed that the surname ‘Starr’ and or it’s variant’s, dates as far back as the 13th century were a ‘Johannes le Ster’, from the county of Oxfordshire, England, is recorded on the Hundred Rolls in twelve hundred and seventy-three. Historical archive’s have been unable to definitely determine the exact period of settlement in North America but It is believed that the forefather’s of this surname were part of the exodus of migrants that followed the Treaty of Peace signed in Paris in 1763, when great Britain obtained ownership of the whole of North …
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