Last Name LETTSOM

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Meaning	The son of Lettice (Latin 'laetitia,' gladness). As a girl's name Lettice was very popular in its day. It is now rare. It suffered at the Reformation, and still more so in the Puritan era, not being a Bible name, and implying hilarity. Lett was the nickname, Letts and Lettson being the patronymics. Lettsom is occasionally a corrupted form of Lettson (like Ransom for Ranson), but in general it is local. Local: Of Ledsham. Although Lettsom is undoubtedly baptismal in some cases (variant of Lett), it is as unquestionably local in others. Ledsham is a parish six miles north from Pontefract. Lettsom is a sharpened form.

Origin	English, Irish

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