Last name: BLACKSHAW
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BLACKSHAW : This last name is indexed 17,574 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BLACKSHAW : English: habitational name from a lost place called Blackshaw Gap in Rainow (Cheshire) or possibly from Blackshaw (Yorkshire) named with Old English blæc ‘black’ + sceaga ‘copse’.
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