Last name: FARWELL
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FARWELL : This last name is indexed 29,193 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FARWELL : English:: 1: nickname from the Middle English phrase fare wel ‘do well prosper’ or perhaps from the saluation fare wel ‘farewell goodbye’. Compare Farewell 2.2: habitational name from Farewell Staffordshire or another place so named (from Old English fæger ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘spring stream’).
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