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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly a topographic name from Middle English long ‘long’ + weye ‘way’, ‘road’, or a habitational name from some minor place so named; Longway Bank in Derbyshire, however, is named from Old English lang ‘long’ + hōh ‘hill spur’.

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