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cheshire Name Meaning and History

English: regional name for someone from the county of Cheshire in northwestern England, the name of which is recorded in Domesday Book as Cestrescire, from the name of the county seat, Chester, + Old English scir ‘district’, ‘division’.

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Distribution of cheshire Families in the US in 1920
Number of cheshire families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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