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Help[Surname] Re: needing information about our last name
in reply to a message by bev hemphill
Northern Irish, originally Scottish: habitational name from a place near Galston in Ayrshire, apparently so named from Old English henep ‘hemp’ + hyll ‘hill’.
(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
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(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
www.ancestry.com
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