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The shire Surname

shire Name Meaning and History

English and Irish (County Limerick; of English origin): from Old English scir, Middle English s(c)hire ‘shire’, perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by the meeting place of a shire.

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

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

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Distribution of shire Families in the US in 1920
Number of shire families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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