Last name: AMHERST
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AMHERST : This last name is indexed 7,434 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
AMHERST : from Amhurst in Pembury (Kent) which is recorded as Hemhurst in 1250. The place probably derives its name from Old English hemm ‘hem border boundary’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
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