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Dictionary of
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname AMPHLETT.
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From
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley,
A. Bardsley, 1901.
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AMPHLETT.
A local name meaning "of Amfleet," one of many local names found on
the east coast of England, from Durham to Suffolk, which have -fleet for
their suffix, a shallow creek. Mr. Lower quotes Lambarde's
Dictionary: "Amflete, Amfleot, et aliis Ampleot, a have in France, as
I gesse, near Boloigne"; v. Patr. Brit. p. 8.]
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