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plough Name Meaning and History

English: from Middle English plow ‘plow’, metonymic occupational name for a plowwright or plowman. In some cases it may have been a topographic name for someone who lived at the edge of an area of plowed land.

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Distribution of plough Families in the US in 1920
Number of plough families
 14-25
 5-13
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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