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heritage Name Meaning and History
English: status name for someone who inherited land from an
ancestor, rather than by feudal gift from an overlord, from Middle
English, Old French (h)eritage ‘inherited property’ (Late Latin
heritagium, from heres ‘heir’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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