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The essex Surname

essex Name Meaning and History

English: regional name for someone from the county of Essex, which is named from Old English east ‘east’ + Seaxe ‘Saxons’. In England the surname is now particularly common in Birmingham.

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

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

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Distribution of essex Families in the US in 1920
Number of essex families
 25-47
 9-24		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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