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Origin Of The Surname Moorhouse
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Meaning Of The Surname Moorhouse
From the Town on the Marshes
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Interesting
Facts About
Moorhouse
Moorhouse 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 derived from the Old English ‘moor’ meaning marshland and ‘hus’ meaning house, combined to mean ‘house on the marshland’. Towns with this name would have had their original settlements built on marshland. From the meaning of ‘Moorhouse’ we can also suppose that the surname could have been given topographically, to a person who lived in a house built on marshland. |
Moorhouse Statistics
Moorhouse is the number 1069 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,477 share the surname Moorhouse in the UK.
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