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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places so called, in Cumbria and Nottinghamshire, from Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ (influenced by Old Norse hesli) + Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

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