Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Tonacliffe in Lancashire, recorded in 1246 as Tunwal(e)clif, from Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’ + wæll(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ + clif ‘bank’, ‘slope’.
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