The canterbury Surname
canterbury Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Canterbury in Kent, named in Old
English as Cantwaraburg ‘fortified town (burgh) of the
people (wara) of Kent’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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