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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the places so called, in London, Norfolk, and West Yorkshire. The first is named from Old English sceald ‘shallow’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, the latter two from scēad ‘boundary’ + well(a).

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