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What is the origin of the surname 'Leetham'?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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A quick search of some surname/genealogical sites turned several instances of people named Leetham from the Yorkshire, England area.

I have an old family photograph which must date from between 1850 to 1900.

It is a group shot of about a dozen people standing outside a building called the Plough Inn, above the door is the proprietors name, Robert Dunlop.

In careful printing on the card frame is "TAKEN IN LEETHAM".

I can find no reference anywhere to a place called LEETHAM but I suspect at that time it may have referred to a district somewhere around Grantham in Lincolnshire.

The surname and place name are probably associated.

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