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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
Fairholm	Locality	The fair island
Fales	Locality	Fale, a river of Cornwall, England
Falun	Locality	Fanning
Fanning	Locality	son of Fann
Farnham	Locality	a town in Surrey, England
Felton	Locality	A small town in England
Fenshaw	Locality	The shaw or grove in the fen
Ferrer	Locality	Ferrieres, a small town of Gastinois, France
Ferrers	Locality	Ferrieres, a small town of Gastinois, France
Fife	Locality	A shire or county of Scotland
Fifield	Locality	Lands held in fee or fief, for which the individual pays service or owes rent
Filey	Locality	a town in England
Filley	Locality	a town in England
Flanders	Locality	a County or Earldom of the Low Countries, or Netherlands
Flint	Locality	a market town of that name, near the sea, in Flintshire, Wales
Foote	Locality	A place at the bottom of a hill or mountain, the base
Fordham	Locality	a town in England
Fosdyke	Locality	The name of a canal, cut by the order of Henry VIII., from the great marsh near Lincoln, England, to the Trent. Fosse-dyke
Fotherby	Locality	The town of provisions, food and fodder
Fothergill	Locality	Fother and gill, a brook
Fotheringham	Locality	The house or town supplying food for man and beast
Fremont	Locality	Framont, a place in France, near Lorraine
Frothingham	Locality	A house or village situated near a strait or arm of the sea
Fulham	Locality	A village on the Thames, England
Fullerton	Locality	The town where the cloth is dressed
Fulsom	Locality	Foulsham, a town in England

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