Last name: TEMPLETON
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TEMPLETON : This last name is indexed 60,869 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
TEMPLETON : Scottish: habitational name from a place near Dundonald in Ayrshire so called from Middle English temple ‘house of the Knights Templar’ + toun ‘settlement’. There are also places called Templeton in Wales Berkshire and Devon but these do not seem to have contributed to the surname.
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