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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly in Lancashire and Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of the numerous places, for example in Lancashire, North and East Yorkshire, County Durham, Humberside, Kent, Norfolk, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Suffolk, so named from an Old English tūn-st(e)all ‘site of a farm’.

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