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Habitational surname from a lost place in the parish of Mottram St. Andrew, in Cheshire, from Old English mōtere (“speaker”), + -s- + heafod (“head; summit, top of a hill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Habitational surname from a lost place in the parish of Mottram St. Andrew, in Cheshire, from Old English mōtere (“speaker”), + -s- + heafod (“head; summit, top of a hill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.