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The kershaw Surname

kershaw Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Kirkshaw in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, so named from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + shaw ‘grove’. There are two minor places in West Yorkshire called Kershaw, which may be of the same origin and may also lie behind the surname, but on the other hand they may themselves derive from the surname. In some cases the name may be topographic for someone who lived near the ‘church grove’.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the kershaw family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of kershaw Families in the US in 1920
Number of kershaw families
 56-110
 19-55		 1-18
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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