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Pitts
Usage: English
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Means "dweller by the pit, hollow" from the Old English pytt or "from Pitt (Hants) or Pett (East Sussex), England".
Found on the BTNs sister site
http://surnames.behindthename.com
you might get more help if you post on the message board there too :)
Usage: English
Extra: Statistics, *Edit This Entry*
Means "dweller by the pit, hollow" from the Old English pytt or "from Pitt (Hants) or Pett (East Sussex), England".
Found on the BTNs sister site
http://surnames.behindthename.com
you might get more help if you post on the message board there too :)
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Adding Carwright and Glover are occupational surnames
Glover was a person who made Gloves
Cartwright I think was a wheelmaker
see
http://surnames.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=87849&board=sur
Glover was a person who made Gloves
Cartwright I think was a wheelmaker
see
http://surnames.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=87849&board=sur
This message was edited 7/8/2006, 10:15 AM
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