Last name: HENDERSON
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HENDERSON : This last name is indexed 838,067 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HENDERSON : English and Scottish: usually from Middle English and Older Scots Hener(i)son ‘Henry's son’ occasionally from Middle English Hendeson ‘son of Hen’ a pet form of Henry both with an intrusive -d-. Compare Hendrie. In Scotland Henderson was sometimes substituted for McKendrick.
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