The dunmore Surname

dunmore Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: habitational name from Dunmore Farm in Oxfordshire or from any of many places in Scotland named in Gaelic as Dún Môr ‘great hill’. The surname is most common in the Midland counties of England.

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The dunmore name in History

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

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Distribution of dunmore Families in the US in 1920

Number of dunmore families

20-37

7-19

1-6

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Lawrence Dunmore, African American	Shirley	20
Lionel Raymond Dunmore	Sue Bruce	1
Dunmore	scapps61	0
Issac King and Eva Dunmore	Suzan	0
William and Larry Dunmore	KIMMO	5
DUNMORE-1 newspaper article	Max57TBird	0
UK Dunmore	knicki_1	0
Henry Lawrence DUNMORE?Susan Gorman	Jarreth Dunmore	3
Blanche Dunmore	SteveJames500	0
Rev. Samuel R. Sweetman m. Rebecca H. Dunmore in PA	KateBeaugrand_C	0

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