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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Fife) and English : occupational name for someone who harrowed cultivated land, perhaps someone who did this as a feudal service on manorial land, from an agent derivative of Middle English harwen ‘to rake’ (of Scandinavian origin).

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