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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from the barony of Lamberton in Berwickshire, or in some instances possibly from Lamerton in Devon, named from Old English lamb ‘lamb’ + burna ‘stream’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, i.e. ‘farmsead on the lamb stream’.

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