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Origin Of The Surname Kershaw
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Meaning Of The Surname Kershaw
From the Town with the Church in the Thicket
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Interesting
Facts About
Kershaw
Kershaw 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 is made up of the Old English ‘kirk’ referring to a church, and ‘sceagre’ referring to a thicket, giving the place name the meaning of ‘church in the thicket’. |
Kershaw Statistics
Kershaw is the number 1400 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,657 share the surname Kershaw in the UK.
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