Last name: WESTMORELAND
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WESTMORELAND : This last name is indexed 16,621 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WESTMORELAND : English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): habitational name from the former region or county of Westmorland. The placename is recorded as Westmoringa land c. 1150 and means ‘the land of the people living west of the moors’ (i.e. the Pennines) from Old English west ‘west western’ + mōr ‘moor’ + the groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + land ‘land’.
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