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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Mottershead or Mottishead, a habitational name from a lost place in the parish of Mottram, Cheshire, recorded in the 13th century as Mottresheved, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Mōtere ‘speaker’ + Middle English heved ‘head(land)’, ‘hill’.

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