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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : habitational name from any of various minor places so called, for example in Morebattle in the Scottish Borders, in county Durham, Greater London, Suffolk, and elsewhere, all named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ (or the Old English personal name Hwīta) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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