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Dictionary of
Family Names
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname ARMITAGE,
HERMITAGE.
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From
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley,
A. Bardsley, 1901, and,
An Etymological Dictionary of
Family and Christian Names, by William Arthur, M. A., 1857.
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ARMITAGE, HERMITAGE.
Bardsley has: A local name meaning "of the Hermitage," once
pronounced harmitage or armitage in the north; cf. Clerk
and
Clark, Derby
and Darby,
&c.; v. Armit and Armistead.
A great Lancashire and Yorkshire surname.
Arthur has: ARMITAGE.
Local. The same as Hermitage, the cell or habitation of a hermit, formerly a
wilderness or solitary place; a convent of hermits or minor friars.
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L, M, N,
O, P, Q,
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