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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from Bagnall in Staffordshire, named with the Old English personal name Badeca, Baduca (from a short form of the various compound names with the first element beadu ‘battle’) + Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’ (see Hale) or holt ‘wood’ (see Holt).

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