habitational name from a place in
Norfolk, so named from Old English suð ‘south’ +
geat ‘gate’; the village was situated near the southern
entrance to a large enclosed medieval forest. The place of this name
formerly in Middlesex, now part of Greater London, may also have
constributed to the surname.topographic name for someone who
lived near the south gate of a medieval walled city or other enclosed
place.
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