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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Evidently an altered form of Cornish Killigrew, a habitational name from a place in St. Erme parish, Cornwall, probably named in Cornish as ‘hazelnut grove’, from kelly ‘grove’ + cnow ‘hazel trees’.

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