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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a butcher. In part it is from Middle English flescher, an agent derivative of Old English flǣsc ‘flesh’, ‘meat’; in part a reduced form of Middle English fleschewere, Old English flǣschēawere, in which the second element is an agent noun from hēawan ‘to hew or cut’.

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