The dunbar Surname
dunbar Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from Dunbar, a place on the North Sea
coast near Edinburgh, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’ +
barr ‘top’, ‘summit’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| DNA Project Update Fall/Christmas 2009 |
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| Books on the Dunbar Family |
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| Dunbar Belfast to Ontario Canada | Garry Brickman | 13 |
| Agnes Dunbar |
phoebeparks
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| DUNBAR, Andrew J. (obit) |
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| Dunbar Family Information |
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| Robert Dunbar, b. 1630 | Tim Mierzejewski | 49 |
| Dunbar's from Barnwell, SC |
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| Nathan R. Dunbar born abt 1832 Pa, tailor |
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