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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an English habitational name from Silksworth in Tyne and Wear (formerly in County Durham), named in Old English with the personal name Sigelāc + worð ‘enclosure’. However, the surname does not appear in present-day English records.

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