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  • English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from Tattershall in Lincolnshire, named from the genitive of the Old English personal name Tāthere (composed of an obscure element tāt + here ‘army’) + Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’. The surname has been common in Lancashire from an early period.