Last name: WHEATCROFT
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WHEATCROFT : This last name is indexed 13,791 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WHEATCROFT : English: meaning ‘dweller by a croft where wheat was grown’ or a habitational name from a place so named from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + croft ‘smallholding’. There is one such place in Derbyshire; it is also a common field name.
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