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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cumbria) : habitational name from Troughton Hall in the parish of Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire, so named from Old English trog ‘trough’, ‘hollow’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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