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amesbury Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in Wiltshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Ambresberie, from an unattested Old English personal name Ambre + Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified place’.

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Distribution of amesbury Families in the US in 1920
Number of amesbury families
 8-14
 3-7
 1-2
 0
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