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hathaway Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly central southern England and South Wales):
  2. topographic name for someone who lived by a path across a heath, from Middle English hathe ‘heath’ + weye ‘way’.
  3. from an (apparently rare) Old English female personal name, Heaðuwig, composed of the elements heaðu ‘strife’, ‘contention’ + wig ‘war’.

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hathaway Family Facts

Distribution of hathaway Families in the US in 1920
Number of hathaway families
 267-532
 90-266
 1-89
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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