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bigelow Name Meaning and History

English (Merseyside and Cheshire): probably a habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Big Low in the township of Rainbow. This place name is not on early record; it means ‘big mound’, from early Modern English big + low ‘mound’, ‘hill’ (Old English hlaw).

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Distribution of bigelow Families in the US in 1920
Number of bigelow families
 146-290
 49-145		 1-48
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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