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tarrant Name Meaning and History

  1. English (southern): topographic name for someone living on the banks of the Tarrant river in Dorset, of which the name is of the same origin as Trent.
  2. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Toráin (see Torrens).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of tarrant Families in the US in 1920
Number of tarrant families
 31-59
 11-30		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 156 - Messages: 530
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Tarrants of Chaddleworth, Berkshire Susan Hobson 4
Amos William Tarrant, from U.K. London delrita159 2
TARRANT --Newcastle--Australia LeanneFraser 2
TARRANT from Wiltshire Ian Jones 1
Tarrant - Somersetshire, England ianmark 1
TARRANT family in Newfoundland, Canada Elizabeth Tarrant-Young 98
Rosa Tarrant of Birmingham, Alabama TRACIE L TARRANT 4
J.R. Tarrant 1843--1921 brianfutrel 0
Tarrant settlers in Salem Massachusetts Purestar21 5
Tarrants in Missouri otarrants 5
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