Last name: SEFTON
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SEFTON : This last name is indexed 16,757 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SEFTON : English (Lancashire): habitational name from Sefton (Lancashire) probably from Old Norse sef ‘sedge rush’ + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
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