Last name: WALPOLE
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WALPOLE : This last name is indexed 56,510 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WALPOLE : English: habitational name from either of two places in Norfolk and Suffolk. The placenames probably derive from Old English walh ‘foreigner Briton serf’ (genitive plural wala) + pōl ‘pool’ though the Norfolk placename may have Old English wall ‘wall’ as the initial element.
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