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The fothergill Surname

fothergill Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Fothergill in Cumbria or some other place similarly named (for example in West Yorkshire), from Old Norse fóðr ‘fodder’, ‘forage’ + gil ‘steep valley’, ‘ravine’.

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

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Distribution of fothergill Families in the US in 1920
Number of fothergill families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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William Dinah FOTHERGILL Amba 7
Joseph Fothergill Joe Fothergill 0
Joseph Fothergill chasbat 12
FOTHERGILL and ADAMTHWAITE sue_mastel 0
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Fothergills of Bristol England RFothergill1045 10
hannah fothergill teresar177 0
William and Emma Fothergill, Yorkshire Linda Hardy 2
Fothergills of Bedale Aiskew England MauriceFothergill 36
Fothergill Family Weekend ann pentecost 1
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