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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Shortened form of Irish McPartlow, Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Pharthaláin, a patronymic from Parthalán (see McFarlane).
  • Variant of German Bartlau, a habitational name from Bartelow, a place in Pomerania no longer extant.

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