Last name: WISWELL
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WISWELL : This last name is indexed 4,503 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WISWELL : English (Lancashire): habitational name from Wiswell in Lancashire. The placename probably derives from a lost river name Wise (from Old English wise ‘river swamp’) + Old English wella ‘well spring stream’.
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