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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
Fairbairn			a fair, handsome bairn or child
Fane			a temple, a church
Fanshaw			Fane, a temple or church, and shaw, a small wood or grove
Farquharson			son of Farquhar
Felch			Welch
Ferris			Ferrers
Fielding			Earls of Hapsburgh, in Germany
Filmore			Fille, Saxon, denoting fullness or plenteousness, and mere, a lake or moist piece of ground
Filmur			Fille, Saxon, denoting fullness or plenteousness, and mere, a lake or moist piece of ground
Filo			Filea, in the Gaelic, is a bard, poet, or historian
Finch			A small singing bird
Firman			Ferdman, a soldier
FitzHamon			son of Hamon
FitzHarding			son of Harding
FitzHatton			son of Hatton
FitzHenry			son of Henry
FitzHerbert			son of Herbert
FitzHervey			son of Hervey
FitzHugh			son of Hugh
FitzJohn			son of John
FitzMorice			son of Morris
FitzOrme			son of Orme
FitzParnell			son of Parnell
FitzPatrick			son of Patrick
FitzRandolph			son of Randolph
FitzRoy			son of Roy
FitzSwain			son of Swain
Flood			Fludd or Floyd. Welsh, brown, gravy, hoary
Folger			Fougeres, a town of France
Foljambe			Full James, Fool James
Forbisher			A polisher or armor or weapons
Forrester			A woodman
Forster			A woodman
Fortescue			Strong shield
Fosgate			From fisse, a ditch, moat, or trench, and gate
Foster			Forrester
Fountain			springs or fountains
Fowler			A sportsman who persues wild fowl
Fox			the cunning animal
Frank			A native of France
Franklin			superior freeholder
Freeman			One who enjoys liberty
Freer			French, Frere, a friar, a monk, a brother
French			belonging to France
Frery			Frederick
Frobisher			A polisher or armor or weapons
Fulkins			son of Fulke
Fuller			One who fulls cloth; a clothier
Furbusher			A polisher or armor or weapons

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