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Cowperthwaite

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Copperthwaite in North Yorkshire, which is named with Middle English coupere ‘maker of wooden buckets and tubs’ + thweit ‘clearing’ (from Old Norse þveit).

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