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summerhill Name Meaning and History

Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various minor places named with Old English somer ‘summer’ + hyll ‘hill’, i.e. hill used for summer grazing. In Scotland there is one such place in the parish of New Machar in Aberdeenshire, and another in Ayton, Berwickshire.

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Distribution of summerhill Families in the US in 1920
Number of summerhill families
 9-16
 4-8
 1-3
 0
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