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The tinsley Surname

tinsley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in South Yorkshire near Rotherham, named in Old English with the genitive case of an unattested personal name Tynni + hlaw ‘hill’, ‘mound’, ‘barrow’. This name is also established in Ulster.

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

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

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Distribution of tinsley Families in the US in 1920
Number of tinsley families
 156-310
 53-155		 1-52
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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