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The proud and noble English surname of Sawyers was originated by the Anglo-Saxon tribes who once ruled all of Britain. It would have originally been bestowed upon a person who was employed as a "woodcutter", also known as a "sawyer". When a person's surname derives from an object associated with their activity, it's called a "metonymic" surname. Earliest records of this English surname are to found in Norfolk, where they held a family seat.

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