The cheshire Surname
cheshire Name Meaning and History
English: regional name for someone from the county of Cheshire in
northwestern England, the name of which is recorded in Domesday Book
as Cestrescire, from the name of the county seat,
Chester, + Old English scir ‘district’,
‘division’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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