English: habitational name for someone from places so named in
Wiltshire and Cambridgeshire. Both are named from the rivers on which
they stand: the Kennet in Wiltshire and Kennett in Kent, an old
British or Celtic name of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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