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lace Name Meaning and History

  1. Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘blue’, probably denoting someone with silver-gray hair. Compare Glass.
  2. English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of cord and string, from Middle English lace ‘cord’ (Old French laz, las).

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

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

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Distribution of lace Families in the US in 1920
Number of lace families
 13-23
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 11 - Messages: 38
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Margaret Lace born early 1800s Isle of Man SEddy8188 2
Eunice Lace b.1855 Ramsey, Isle of Man (died in North Wales) SarahBarker63 0
CHARLES HENRY LACE HELEN MORLEY 6
JAMES LACE AND ELIZA CROCKER FROM PENN TO INDIANA alecramey 0
Lace's in NY (1880) skoch99 16
Lace Liverpool serge de MULLER 0
ALBERT LACE Kativa2000 1
Re;George Lace adampliska 2
Lace Connection to Ross/Butler of SC 1700/1800 CynthiaRossG 0
Number 52 can be taken off adampliska 0
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