Last name: ARMITAGE
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ARMITAGE : This last name is indexed 88,272 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ARMITAGE : English: topographic name from Middle English Old French (h)ermitage ‘hermitage’ (a derivative of Old French (h)ermite ‘hermit’) or a habitational name from a place called with this word. The name is very common in Yorkshire where it has been traced to a hermitage in South Crosland close to Armitage Bridge in Almondbury near Huddersfield.
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