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Fleshewer Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from an occupation. 'a carnifex,' a slaughter-man, a man who cuts up the carcases of cattle for the shambles; compare stone-hewer, wood-hewer, block-hewer. The name was early lost in Flesher, i.e. butcher, and not in Fletcher; v.

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This surname is derived from an occupation. 'a carnifex,' a slaughter-man, a man who cuts up the carcases of cattle for the shambles; compare stone-hewer, wood-hewer, block-hewer. The name was early lost in Flesher, i.e. butcher, and not in Fletcher; v. Flesher; compare Fleshmonger.

Robert Fleshewer, Pardon Rolls, 6 Richard II.

Peter le Flesshewere, Close Rolls, 30 Edward III.

William Flesschewer, Yorkshire Testamenta Eboracensia (Surtees Society).

John Fleshewer. Rolls of Parliament.

Willelmus de Rypon, flesskewer, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Johannes de Staynlay, 1379: ibid.

Willelmas del Clay, fieshewer, 1379: ibid.

Johannes Fleshewer, backer, 1379: ibid.

Agnes Flesschewer, 1379: ibid.

An attempt to rescue this surname from absorption into Flesher is found so late as the 16th century.

William Fleshware, of Chester, weaver, 1577: Wills at Chester.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley
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