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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cambridgeshire) : probably an occupational name for a college servant or someone with some other association with a university college, for example a tenant farmer who farmed one of the many farms in England known as College Farm, most of which are or were owned by university colleges.
  • English (Cambridgeshire) : See Colledge.
  • English (Cambridgeshire) : John Coolidge came to Watertown, MA, in about 1631, probably from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England.

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