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The tew Surname

tew Name Meaning and History

  1. Welsh: nickname for a fat man, from tew ‘plump’.
  2. English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire (Great, Little and Duns Tew), named with an Old English tiewe ‘row’, ‘ridge’. The surname has been established in Ireland since the 16th century.

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

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

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Distribution of tew Families in the US in 1920
Number of tew families
 51-99
 18-50		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 133 - Messages: 523
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Cora Sheldon Tew, b.1860, dau of Porter/Mary Sheldon, lived Chautauqua Co., NY margerice1 0
Ewell David Tew elmartew 2
Tew's in Alabama Evan Dyal 6
e-mail address update DonaldK20 0
Tew - spelling of mmcdona11 0
Lady (Muriel) TEW c1885-1941 joburger 1
Tew - Ancesters early 1700's barriewalter67 1
descendants of James and Callie Erica McEachin Rhodes 3
Tew surname wachsl 0
Surname TEW mean? also looking for PatriciaBundy70 19
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