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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place near Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, or another in Lancashire, both called Pendleton from the hill name Pendle + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  • The Pendleton family were established in Caroline Co., VA, by Philip Pendleton, a schoolmaster of Norwich, England, who emigrated in 1682.

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