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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places in Cheshire. It is possible that the name originally denoted a building where village assemblies were held, named in Old English as ‘meeting-house’, from (ge)mōt ‘meeting’ + ærn ‘house’, ‘hall’. Other possibilities are that the name derives from Old English (ge)mōt-rūm ‘meeting space’, or (ge)mōt-treum ‘assembly trees’.

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