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greathouse Name Meaning and History

North German and Dutch: Americanized form of Grothaus, habitational name from any of various farms so called, literally ‘big house’, in particular one in Westphalia.

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Distribution of greathouse Families in the US in 1920
Number of greathouse families
 80-158
 27-79
 1-26
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Texas Greathouse KJVanBo 2
Houston and Hurricane Ike rivang 0
Lynn Greathouse of Fort Worth, TX 1917 drbrownlee 0
William H. Greathouse 1876-1944 & wife Alice M. Carol Greathouse 5
Help with Greathouse Adoption logsdon41 1
Mary Ellen Greathouse, Wmsn Co., IL Roberta Griffiths 2
Eli Sibbitt or Eli Greathouse AUBIE4444 5
Sarah Jane Greathouse sherrywoods14 12
Silas & Mary Catherine Greathouse Terri J. Cook 12
Lindsey & Lucinda Greathouse Jennifer White 2
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