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barclay Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name of English origin, from Berkeley in Gloucestershire, named in Old English with be(o)rc ‘birch’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The barclay name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the barclay family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of barclay Families in the US in 1920
Number of barclay families
 115-228
 39-114		 1-38
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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