Last name: CRITCHLOW

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CRITCHLOW : This last name is indexed 11,035 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

CRITCHLOW : English: habitational name from Croichlow in Bury (Lancashire) recorded in the surname de Cruchelowe in 1324 and Croichelay in 1563. The name is perhaps also derived from Crouchley Farm in Lymm (Cheshire) though this name is of uncertain age; or from an unidentified place in southern England whose name has a similar origin (from the British Celtic crouco- ‘hill barrow’ in an English guise + Old English hlāw hlǣw ‘hill barrow’). The original -low has sometimes been replaced with -ley (compare Critchley).

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