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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Leicestershire) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of palliasses (straw mattresses), from Middle English, Old French pa(i)llet ‘heap of straw’, ‘straw mattress’, a diminutive of Old French paille ‘straw’.

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