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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) : unexplained.
  • Nicholas Waln came from the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to New Castle, DE, in 1682. A Philadelphia, PA, Waln family flourished in the second half of the 18th century.

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