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presby Name Meaning and History

Altered form of English Pres(t)bury from any of various places called Presbury (Devon) or Prestbury (Cheshire, Gloucestershire), all named in Old English as ‘the manor house (burh) of the priests’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of presby Families in the US in 1920
Number of presby families
 9-16
 4-8
 1-3
 0
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