Norfolk Roots - Helping you find your family's history
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NORFOLK SURNAMES: H

HALL:
The popular misconception i8s that this was the name for the person who lived at the Hall (or manor house) but that was more likely to end up as Lord. In fact the name derives from the Old English word heall which meant a worker at the hall.
There are 5000 occurrences of the name in Norfolk in the IGI, the earliest being 1469. In the 1881 census the name occurs 1989 times in Norfolk.

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Click the letter to see some examples of surnames, their meanings and distribution in Norfolk.

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