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fairchild Name Meaning and History

Southern English: nickname from Middle English fair child ‘handsome child’ or ‘handsome youth of noble birth’ (see Child).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fairchild Families in the US in 1920
Number of fairchild families
 116-230
 39-115		 1-38
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Lucy Jane Fairchild rottpincher 0
Joseph Fairchild b1805 Exbourne, married Jane Sanders dustynet 0
John Fairchild Evelyn McNicol 16
Sarah (Sally) Fairchild Richard Strother 2
Fairchild Cosmetics in L. A. Calif. DeweyEverts 0
SC John Fairchild and Rachel Porcher lpeyman 0
Fairchild of Mississippi Peggy Choate 8
Re: Fairchild from Georgia Lisa Eller 1
Fairchild in Tn deputy657 1
Connecting Fairchilds - Thomas to Sarah/Samuel foxpinter 3
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