Last name: HOLDSWORTH
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HOLDSWORTH : This last name is indexed 45,605 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HOLDSWORTH : English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Holdsworth in Ovenden (Yorkshire) or less likely from Holdsworth in Bradfield (Yorkshire). Both placenames derive from an Old English personal name Halda + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.
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