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dorchester Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name either from Dorchester in Oxfordshire or Dorchester, county seat of Dorset. Both are named with a Celtic name, respectively Dorcic and Durnovaria, + Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dorchester Families in the US in 1920
Number of dorchester families
 9-16
 4-8		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Daniel Dorchester of Bolton, Ct. in 1793 BasketLady420 0
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