Last name: FAWCETT
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FAWCETT : This last name is indexed 76,156 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FAWCETT : English (northern): habitational name from Fawcett in Grayrigg Westmorland or Facit in Lancashire both named from Old English fāg ‘multi-colored’ + sīde ‘slope hillside’. A further possible source Forcett in North Yorkshire is named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’ + sætr ‘shieling’ meaning ‘shieling by a waterfall’.
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