The fawcett Surname
fawcett Name Meaning and History
Northern English: habitational name from Fawcett in Cumbria or
Facit in Lancashire, both named from Old English fah
‘(brightly) colored’ + side ‘slope’, ‘hillside’. A further
possible source, Forcett in North Yorkshire, is named from Old English
ford ‘ford’ + set ‘animal fold’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Maurice Fawcett m. Florence Acaster 1899 Leeds, YKS |
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| Helen M. Fawcett |
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| Floyd Thomas Fawcett |
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| Mary Helen Fawcett |
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| Fawcett/ Cumbria | Laura Beauchamp | 2 |
| FAWCETTs of Yorkshire & Cumberland 1700s |
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| Looking For Joseph Fawcett |
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| Hill, Fawcett & Hill |
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| Norman Edward Fawcett |
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| Fawcett of Hanoverton, Oh and Iowa | George K. Fawcett Jr. | 32 |
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