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norwich Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from the city of Norwich in East Anglia, named from Old English north ‘north’ + wic ‘trading center’, ‘harbor’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.

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Distribution of norwich Families in the US in 1920
Number of norwich families
 7-11
 3-6
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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