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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places so called, the most likely source of the surname being the one in Cheshire near Knutsford. The place name is derived from Old English plūme ‘plum’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

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