The kingsbury Surname
kingsbury Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of several places, for example
in northwest London (formerly Middlesex), Somerset, and Warwickshire.
These are mostly named in Old English as cyninges burh ‘the
king’s stronghold’, but the last mentioned is Cynesburh
‘stronghold of Cyne’. Cyne is a short form of any of various
compound names with cyne- ‘royal’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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