Last name: WHITELAW
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WHITELAW : This last name is indexed 22,258 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WHITELAW : Scottish (Lanarkshire and Midlothian): habitational name from either or both places called Whitelaw in Morebattle and Bowden (Roxburghshire) named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + hlāw ‘mound hill’.
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