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marsh Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mershe (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places named with this word, for example in Shropshire and Sussex.

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

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

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Distribution of marsh Families in the US in 1920
Number of marsh families
 462-922
 155-461		 1-154
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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