The flax Surname
flax Name Meaning and History
English (East Anglia) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic
occupational name for someone who grew, sold, or treated flax for
weaving into linen cloth, from (respectively) Middle English
flax, German Flachs.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Hello | Dwight O. Flax | 17 |
| Annie GORDON Flax (Mrs. Huston FLAX) |
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| Flax/Harris/Hall |
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| Is this for real? | Beth Flax | 3 |
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| Flax family from Kansas |
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| Affi (Claspha) Flax - Louis Himber |
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| Sosis/Flax family - Brooklyn, NY |
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| Flax from Russia to Ireland to US | Ruth Moltz | 0 |
| David FLAX, spouse of JANE MCDOWELL - Pasadena, CA |
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