Last name: BELLINGHAM

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BELLINGHAM : This last name is indexed 31,880 times on Geneanet!

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BELLINGHAM : English: habitational name from any of the places called Bellingham in Greater London (formerly in Kent) and Northumberland. The former is named with Old English Beringahām ‘homestead (Old English hām) of the followers of Be(o)ra’ a byname meaning ‘bear’; the latter seems to have been originally named as the ‘homestead of the dwellers at the bell’ from Old English belle used in a transferred sense of a bell-shaped hill.

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