Evidently an altered form of Cornish Killigrew, a
habitational name from a place in St. Erme parish, Cornwall, probably
named in Cornish as ‘hazelnut grove’, from kelly ‘grove’ +
cnow ‘hazel trees’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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