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Surname Etymology and Meaning of MARSH

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(origin: Teutonic.) Maresche, Morass, a fen, a tract of low, wet land.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mershe (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places named with this word, for example in Shropshire and Sussex.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)