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Achym Surname Definition:
ACHYM: "Signifies in British (Cornish) a descendant, issue, offspring, or progeny." The family were of great antiquity in Cornwall. D. Gilbert's Cornw. IV. 23. Acham appears from heraldric evidence to be the same name.
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ACHYM: "Signifies in British (Cornish) a descendant, issue, offspring, or progeny." The family were of great antiquity in Cornwall. D. Gilbert's Cornw. IV. 23. Acham appears from heraldric evidence to be the same name.
— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower
A family of great antiquity in Cornwall. The name is said to mean a descendant, issue, offspring, or progeny (ach). Acham appears to be the same name.
— Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock
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