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lancaster Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Lancaster in northwestern England, named in Old English as ‘Roman fort on the Lune’, from the Lune river, on which it stands, + Old English cæster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin castra ‘legionary camp’). The river name is probably British, perhaps related to Gaelic slán ‘healthy’, ‘salubrious’.

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The lancaster name in History

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

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Distribution of lancaster Families in the US in 1920
Number of lancaster families
 132-262
 45-131		 1-44
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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