Last name: SHARPLES
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SHARPLES : This last name is indexed 72,381 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHARPLES : English (Lancashire): habitational name from Sharples (Lancashire). The etymology of the placename is uncertain; it may derive from Old English scearp ‘sharp pointed steep’ + lǣs ‘meadow’ or lēas plural of lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’ or from scearpol ‘place characterized by a pointed feature pointed hill’.
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