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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Wolstenholme, a place in Lancashire named from the Old English personal name Wulfstān (see Woolston 1) + Old Norse holmr ‘island’, ‘dry land in a fen’.

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