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henshaw Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place in Northumberland, so called from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Heðin (from a short form of the rare compound names formed with h?ð ‘heath’ as the first element) + Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.
  2. habitational name from a place in the parish of Prestbury, Cheshire, and from a lost place in southeastern Lancashire, both named from Middle English hen ‘hen’ + shaw ‘wood’. The name de Henneshagh occurs at Rochdale as early as 1325.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of henshaw Families in the US in 1920
Number of henshaw families
 39-76
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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