Last name: LOWTHER
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LOWTHER : This last name is indexed 60,120 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LOWTHER : English: habitational name from a place in Cumbria so called from the river on which it stands. The placename is of obscure etymology perhaps of ancient Welsh origin (compare Lauder) or from Old Norse lauthr ‘froth foam’ + á ‘river’.
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- Lowther, Westmorland (1,581)
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- Ulverston (198)
- Virginia (195)
- Lowther Hall, Lowther, Westmorland (192)
- Saint Bees,cumberland (183)
- Georgia (162)
- Dublin (161)
- Lowther Castle, Askham, Westmorland (161)
- West Virginia (159)
- Dalton In Furness (156)
- Workington, Cumberland (155)
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