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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Cordwell in Derbyshire or from either of two places called Cauldwell, in Derbyshire and Bedfordshire; all are named with Old English cauld ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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