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muirhead Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in southern Scotland so called, from northern Middle English muir ‘moor’ + heid ‘head’, ‘end’.

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The muirhead name in History

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

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Distribution of muirhead Families in the US in 1920
Number of muirhead families
 17-31
 6-16		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 115 - Messages: 258
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Muirhead of Govan, Glasgow area, Lanarkshire, Scotland liebertk 5
Ancestors in Scottland Curtis W Muirhead 11
Christina HENDERSON nee MUIRHEAD rjhenderson2 0
Livingstone Muirhead. Musselburgh. SCT Leonard (Spike) Jones. 4
MUIRHEAD Bill Merlin 21
GEORGE MUIRHEAD OR MOREHEAD V/WV Vaughn 2
Thomas Muirhead — Lost at Sea stephenmharding 0
Gavin Muirhead and Janet Smith 197303844 1
William Muirhead b 1883 Don_Muirhead 0
Muirhead-Cosgrove Family from Scotland to Massachusetts JAGilmartin 1
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