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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English : habitational name from places in Staffordshire, West Yorkshire, and Northumberland, which are so called from Old English feðerstān ‘tetralith’, a prehistoric structure consisting of three upright stones capped with a headstone (from Old English fe(o)ðer- ‘four’ + stān ‘stone’).

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