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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.

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

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

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Threads: 39 - Messages: 86
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Plough carola191 0
Byron Alonzo (Elonzo) Plough snowman6134 1
Henry Plough CathyField 2
Obit; Arlo D. Plough James 0
Plough....PLOU Sandra Miller Gayle 0
CHRISTIAN & BARBARA PLOUGH CarolBenson42 2
Plue mailing list Shirley Becker 0
Henry Plough/Plow Cathy Field 16
e-mail change zina58 0
Obit: Keith B. Plough, s/o Gene & Amelia Densmore, IL/OK/TX/MO janm581 0
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