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Origin

Calcote : English: habitational name from any of numerous places (in Bedfordshire Berkshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Northamptonshire Warwickshire and elsewhere) named Caldecote or Caldecott from Old English cald ‘cold’ + cot ‘cottage dwelling’. It has been suggested that in Old English this expression denoted an unattended shelter for wayfarers although in fact some places with this name were of considerable status by 1086 when they appear in Domesday Book. In some instances this and some of the other shortened forms may have arisen from Calcot in Berkshire Collacott(s) in Devon or Calcutt in Wiltshire in all of which the first element apparently comes from the Old English personal name Cola (see Cole 2) or the word col ‘(char)coal’ in which case the meaning would be something like ‘coalshed’.

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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, ©2021, University of the West of England
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England

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