Last name: RENSHAW
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RENSHAW : This last name is indexed 47,009 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
RENSHAW : English: habitational name from Renishaw in Eckington (Derbyshire) from the Middle English personal name Reynold + shau(e) ‘copse wood’ (Old English sceaga). The surname forms sometimes show confusion either between the Middle English elements -shau(e) ‘wood’ and -hale ‘nook’ or with another placename that has not yet been identified.
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