Last Name FOULD

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Meaning	Local: At the fold, an enclosure for sheep or cattle. Foulds takes a patronymic 's' like such other one-syllabled local last names as Holmes, Styles, or Brooks. Flouds is a Lancashire surname. Folds is a hamlet in the ancient parish of Bolton, county Lancashire. This probably is the habitat, and if so, then Folds must be looked upon as a plural form including several unclosures.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Hungarian

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