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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Lashbrook in Oxfordshire, named in Old English as ‘boggy stream’, from læcc ‘stream flowing through boggy land’, ‘bog’ + brōc ‘brook’, ‘stream’ (with a more ancient meaning of ‘marsh’).

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