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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Fife) : reduced form of Halkerston, a habitational name from a place so named in Lothian, originally called Hawkerton, from Middle English haueker ‘hawker’ + toun ‘village’, ‘town’, i.e. land held by the king’s falconer.

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