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wardlaw Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from any of several minor places called Wardlaw, from Old English weard ‘watch’ + hlaw ‘hill’. Compare Wardlow.

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Distribution of wardlaw Families in the US in 1920
Number of wardlaw families
 54-106
 19-53
 1-18
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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