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Thread #67769   Message #1134835
Posted By: Strick
12-Mar-04 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: What's in your name?
Subject: RE: BS: What's in your name?
Strickland: a pasture for young cattle, in this case (as I understand it) a common between some villages in Cumbria. Great and Little Strickland are villages there (in the Lake District?) and it was apparently a significant family name. Never on my side of the family, of course.