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leach Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name for a physician, Old English l?ce, from the medieval medical practice of ‘bleeding’, often by applying leeches to the sick person.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived by a boggy stream, from an Old English læcc, or a habitational name from Eastleach or Northleach in Gloucestershire, named with the same Old English element.

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

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Distribution of leach Families in the US in 1920
Number of leach families
 242-482
 81-241		 1-80
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thomas Mark Leach wmonks1 0
christopher columbus leach jackie mulligan 32
Peleg Leach Ingedatter 0
William Theodore Leach Veronica V McIntosh 6
Leach Family Susquehanna Pa rosemaryosborne 0
John Leach & Alicia Ireland - Calvert Co., MD cleach67 6
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Thomas Leach; 1762; UK rood 4
Leach and related families TracyMinter42 16
LEACH, SCOTT, CHURCHILL, TAYNER, LIGGETT, CARPENTER, THOMPSON, etal Revae 0
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