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shrewsbury Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Shrewsbury in Shropshire, which is named from an ancient district name derived from Old English scrobb ‘scrub’, ‘brushwood’, + Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified place’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of shrewsbury Families in the US in 1920
Number of shrewsbury families
 42-82
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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