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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Manchester and Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester called Pendlebury, from the hill name Pendle (composed of the Celtic element penn ‘hill’, ‘head’ + a tautologous Old English hyll) + Old English burh ‘castle’, ‘fortified town’.

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