English: habitational name from a pair of villages in Cheshire, on
either side of the Weaver river, recorded in Domesday Book as
Maneshale, from the genitive case of the Old English personal
name Mann + Old English scylf ‘shelf’, ‘ledge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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