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Updated January 31, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : regional name for someone from the county of Cheshire in northwestern England, the name of which is recorded in Domesday Book as Cestrescire, from the name of the county seat, Chester, + Old English scīr ‘district’, ‘division’.

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