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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of Irish (O) Spellissey, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Spealghusa ‘descendant of Spealghusa’, a personal name probably composed of a compound of speal ‘scythe’ + gus ‘vigor’.

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