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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
Safford		Locality	Seaford, a town of Sussex, England
Sandford		Locality	a place in Westmoreland, England
Scarret		Locality	Scear, a rocky cliff
Schadeck		Locality	lordship in Germany
Scroggs		Locality	Scrog, a stunted shrub, bush, or branch
Seaford		Locality	seaport town in Sussex, England
Seaforth		Locality	a projection of the sea on the east coast of Lewis, on the Long Island, Scotland
Seaton		Locality	a parish in Perthshire
Seix		Locality	A town in Arriege, France
Selby		Locality	A market-town in west Yorkshire, England
Selkirk		Locality	A borough town of Scotland. Cellkirk, a religious house
Seton		Locality	Lands in Haddingtonshire, Scotland
Severins		Locality	Mountains in Languedoc, France
Severn		Locality	A river rising in the mountain Plynlimmon, in Wales
Shaddock		Locality	lordship in Germany
Shelley		Locality	in Essex, Suffolk
Sheppy		Locality	an island in the county of Kent
Shiel		Locality	A river and loch or lake, in the south-west of Inverness-shire, Scotland
Shrewsbury		Locality	A town in Shropshire, England
Shuckburgh		Locality	A place in Warwickshire, England
Shurtliff		Locality	short cliff
Shute		Locality	the castle of Shute, in Normandy, France
Sikes		Locality	A small spring well
Sisson		Locality	Sissonne, a town in France
Slack		Locality	A valley, or small shallow dell
Slade		Locality	A long flat piece or slip of ground between hills
Snodgrass		Locality	Grass trimmed and smooth
Solden		Locality	A town in Westphalia, Germany
Soule		Locality	A small territory in France, between Bearn and the Lower Navarre
Southwell		Locality	A town in Nottinghamshire, England
Spaaren		Locality	A river in North Holland
Spalding		Locality	the town of Spalding, in Lincolnshire, England
St. Albans		Locality	A town in Hertfordshire, England
Stanhope		Locality	Town in the bishopric of Durham, England
Stanley		Locality	A market-town in Gloucestershire, England
Stebbins		Locality	originally Stubing, in Essex, England
Stein		Locality	A town in the isle of Sky, Scotland
Stirling		Locality	city of Stirling
Stockton		Locality	A town in Durham, on the Tees, England
Stokes		Locality	towns in Suffolk and Gloucestershire, England
Stokesby		Locality	Stugeby, the village in the ravine
Stone		Locality	A town in England
Stoughton		Locality	Stoche or Stoke, a place in Surrey, England, and tun, a word signifying an inclosure
Strain		Locality	A town in the north of Scotland, written Strane
Stubbins		Locality	Stebbings, originally Stubing, in Essex, England
Stukeby		Locality	Stugeby, the village in the ravine
Surtees		Locality	Sur-Tees, that is, on the river Tees or Tay, in the county of Durham, England
Sutton		Locality	A town in Devonshire, England
Swaim		Locality	Schwaim, a town in lower Bavaria
Swift		Locality	swiftness in moving
Swinburn		Locality	Sweyne's burn or boundary
Symington		Locality	a parish in the north-west of Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland

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