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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English : topographic name for someone who lived by a clearing or patch of pasture land, Middle English thwaite (Old Norse þveit), or a habitational name from any of the various places named with this word, in northern England, Norfolk, and Suffolk.

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