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Locality A Surnames Family History Resources

Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Alfort		Locality	A village in France, two leagues from Paris
Alsop		Locality	Alsop, Co. Derby, England
Amaker		Locality	Amager, a small Danish island to the east of Copenhagen
Angus		Locality	A county of Scotland, sometimes called Forfarshire
Annan		Locality	A river and borough of Scotland
Annesley		Locality	a town in Nottinghamshire, England
Applegarth		Locality	The orchard, apple-garden
Appleton		Locality	The town abounding in apples
Arbuthnot		Locality	the land and barony of Arbuthnot in the Mearns, Scotland
Arlon		Locality	Arlon, a town in the Netherlands, thirteen miles east from Luxemburg
Armitage		Locality	Hermitage, the cell or habitation of a hermit, formerly a wilderness or solitary place
Artois		Locality	the province of Artois in the Netherlands
Arundel		Locality	the dale on the Arun
Ashburton		Locality	the town on the hill covered or surrounded with ash trees
Astor		Locality	Oster, a town in North Jutland
Athill		Locality	At the hill
Athow		Locality	At the hill
Attree		Locality	At the tree
Atwater		Locality	At the water
Atwell		Locality	At the well
Atwood		Locality	At the wood
Auchinleck		Locality	Ach, an elevation, a mound, or round hill, generally level at the top; and leac, a flat stone, a tombstone
Averill		Locality	Haverill is a town in Suffolk, England
Ayres		Locality	a river, town, and district of the same name in Scotland

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