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Type Surname

Meaning & History

English status name for someone who inherited land from an ancestor, rather than by feudal gift from an overlord, from Middle English, Old French (h)eritage ‘inherited property’ (Late Latin heritagium, from heres ‘heir’).
Added 2/21/2013 by anonymous
Edited 9/17/2016 by LMS and Mike C