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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Northumberland) : habitational name from a place named Haswell, notably the one in County Durham, which is named from Old English hæsel ‘hazelnut tree’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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