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turney Name Meaning and History

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from places in northern France called Tournai (Orne), Tournay (Calvados), or Tourny (Eure), all named with the pre-Roman personal name Turnus (probably meaning ‘height’, ‘eminence’) + the locative suffix -acum.

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

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

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Distribution of turney Families in the US in 1920
Number of turney families
 78-153
 27-77		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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