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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Northumberland) : habitational name from a place in the foothills of the Cheviots named Harbottle, from Old English h̄ra ‘hireling’ (a derivative of h̄r ‘wages’, ‘reward’) + bōtl ‘dwelling’.

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