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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : habitational name from Carswell in south Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire) or from any of the places mentioned at Creswell, all named with Old English cærse ‘(water)cress’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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