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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place so named in Lincolnshire. The place name, recorded in the Domesday book as Cheuelestune, is probably from an Old Norse personal name Gjǫfull + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘village’.

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