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armour Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern Irish: from Middle English, Old French armure, blended with the agent noun armer (see Armer), hence an occupational name for a maker of arms and armor. The collective noun armure denoted offensive weapons as well as the more recently specialized sense of protective gear.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of armour Families in the US in 1920
Number of armour families
 42-82
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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