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Habitational surname from a minor place near Sudbury, in Derbyshire, probably from the Old English personal name *Macca + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Habitational surname from a minor place near Sudbury, in Derbyshire, probably from the Old English personal name *Macca + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.