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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, possibly also one in Cambridgeshire, both so named from Old English Seaxe ‘Saxons’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  • English : variant of Sexton 1.

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