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scripture Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: occupational name for a clerk or scribe, from Latin scriptor ‘writer’, ‘clerk’. The name has been altered from its original Latin form through association with the more familiar English word scripture ‘Bible’.

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

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

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Distribution of scripture Families in the US in 1920
Number of scripture families
 15-28
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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