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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French Canadian : altered form of English Farnsworth.
  • The first known bearer of this name was one Mathias Phaneuf, or Fanef or <xref>Farnsworth</xref>, son of Mathias Farnsworth, a weaver from Groton, MA, whose name was Frenchified.

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