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abshire Name Meaning and History

  1. most probably a variant of English Upshire (see Upshur.
  2. alternatively, perhaps an Americanized form of German Habicher ‘hawker’, i.e. someone who trained hawks for hunting (see Habig). See also Apgar.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of abshire Families in the US in 1920
Number of abshire families
 37-72
 13-36		 1-12
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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new ABSHIREsite at myfamily.com Sandy 44
Abshire Lou Ann Murphy 4
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Fenelon Joseph Abshire utangel81 1
George Abshire/George Easley Abshire CaroleAbsher580 8
Abshires Russ Abshire 11
Abshires, McCormick, Atkins of WV jeannette455 1
ABSHIRE FAMILY BSM43 14
Eliza Moore France Abshire b.12-11-1820 lindahendricks1 21
Seaton Abshire Jerry D. Abshire 13
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