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Featherstone
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Origin Of The Surname Featherstone
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Meaning Of The Surname Featherstone
From the Town with the Feberstan Tomb
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Interesting
Facts About
Featherstone
Featherstone is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘feberstan’ which was a word used to describe a kind of tomb that had three columns and a headstone. The place would have been famous for its feberstan. |
Featherstone Statistics
Featherstone is the number 1392 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,684 share the surname Featherstone in the UK.
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