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lincoln Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia ‘settlement’, ‘colony’. The place was an important administrative center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous ‘Lincoln green’.

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

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

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Distribution of lincoln Families in the US in 1920
Number of lincoln families
 258-513
 87-257		 1-86
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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