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dilworth Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Dilworth, a place in Lancashire named from Old English dile ‘dill’ (a medicinal and culinary herb) + wor{dh} ‘enclosure’.
  2. Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Dubhluachra ‘descendant of Dubhluachra’, a compound of dubh ‘black’ + luachair ‘rushes’.

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

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

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Distribution of dilworth Families in the US in 1920
Number of dilworth families
 42-81
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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