Last name: DEWHURST
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DEWHURST : This last name is indexed 39,724 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DEWHURST : English: topographic name from Wilpshire in Lancashire probably so named from Old English dēawig ‘dewy’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
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