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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably English : this has the form of an English habitational name, but the surname is not now found in England. It could perhaps be from Halstock in Dorset, named in Old English with hālig ‘religious foundation’ + stoc ‘(outlying) farmstead’.

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