Last name: WINCHESTER
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WINCHESTER : This last name is indexed 50,246 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WINCHESTER : English: habitational name from the city in Hampshire so named from the addition of Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (from Latin castra ‘legionary camp’) to the Romano-British name Venta of disputed origin.
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