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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Farwell.
  • English : according to Reaney the name ‘appears frequently in Suffolk from 1275 to 1417, always without a preposition, and is, no doubt, a phrase name, Fare well!’.

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