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drought Name Meaning and History

  1. (Leinster) reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Drochtaigh, which according to Woulfe is a derivative of drocht ‘millwheel’, i.e. a byname for a miller.
  2. (Counties Limerick and Clare) reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Droichid, from droichead ‘bridge’, more usually Anglicized as Bridgeman.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of drought Families in the US in 1920
Number of drought families
 11-20
 4-10		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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FAMILY TREE terence drought 21
Thomas Drought of Droughtville Shirley Drought 7
Drought family , Ireland JMesser77 1
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Drought enquiry Helen Youngman 20
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Thomas & Maria DROUGHT Ireland Marion 2
New to the search Ashley Drought 0
Drought & Simmonds, NSW, Australia HazelHargraves 0
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