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dunsmore Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: habitational name from a now forgotten place called Dundemore in Fife.
  2. English: habitational name from Dunsmoor in Devon or from an old district of Warwickshire called Dunsmore (preserved in Ryton-on-Dunsmore and Stretton-on-Dunsmore); both are named from the Old English personal name Dunn(a) ‘dark’ + mor ‘moor’.

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

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

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Distribution of dunsmore Families in the US in 1920
Number of dunsmore families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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