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Shawcross en · PROPN

Etymology

Probably a habitational surname from Shaw Cross, a suburb of Dewsbury, a town in West Yorkshire, from Old English sċeaga (“copse, thicket”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

Meanings

  1. A surname from Old English.

Forms

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Shawcrosses Number=Plur lexicographic