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greenway Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grassy path, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + weye ‘path’ (see Way).
  2. Welsh: Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Goronwy, of unexplained origin.
  3. Translation of Dutch Groeneweg or German Grüneweg, Gröneweg, topographic names with the same meaning as 1.

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

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Distribution of greenway Families in the US in 1920
Number of greenway families
 47-91
 16-46		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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