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rothwell Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the places, in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, North Yorkshire, and elsewhere, so named from Old English roð(u) ‘clearing’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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The rothwell name in History

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

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Distribution of rothwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of rothwell families
 39-76
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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"missing" Great Crosby baptisms - any ideas??? Rod Stringer 8
Rothwell Robin Sheely 52
Rothwell Family J.Swanson 15
FAMILY HISTORY smwhroutthere 15
Rothwells in Ormskirk, Lancashire katehurst 1
Edmund J.Rothwell 1922 - 2008 KnRothwell 0
Obit; Mary L. Downing (nee Rothwell) 19O7-2OO8 woodsman1953 1
ROTHWELL IN MENIFEE CO KY genmomsandy 4
WILLIAM S. ROTHWELL - BORN 1912 - KENTUCKY teresa 2
Claiborne Rothwell Family herillusion 16
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