bledsoe

00:48 Jan 17, 2008
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English term or phrase: bledsoe
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Bledsoe
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Explanation:
It's an English name, not a Dutch name.

Bledsoe
English: habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Bledisloe, from the Old English personal name Blið (a byname meaning ‘cheerful’) + Old English hlaw ‘mound’, ‘tumulus’.
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Bledsoe-name-meaning.ashx?fn=&...



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