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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly northern Ireland) : variant of the Lancashire surname Salthouse, an occupational name for a worker at a saltworks, a topographic name for someone who lived by a saltworks, or a habitational name from one of the minor places named from a saltworks. There are examples in Furness and Lytham St. Annes, among other places.

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