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townsend Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived at the extremity of a village, from Middle English toun ‘village’, ‘settlement’ + ende ‘end’.

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

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Distribution of townsend Families in the US in 1920
Number of townsend families
 506-1010
 169-505		 1-168
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 1420 - Messages: 3256
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MY SON Rhonda 1
Emma F Townsend bartht1 7
TOWNSEND Donna KING LACKEY t42OldHall_DenCoTX 0
WilliamB.Townsend, brother Ralph Townsend,Kansas,DOdge city area Marilyn Townsend-Maas 7
James W. Townsend Rgbcpousn 1
Does anyone know these Townsends? KKJANDSS11 0
Major Townsend b abt 1812 MD Glenna910 0
Townsend of Northowram or Coley, Halifax PaulCTownsend 0
Jamie Townsend MYPENNY1119 0
Virginia Townsend of Va oclarke11 0
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