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waugh Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern English: of disputed origin. It is most likely from Old English (Anglian) walh ‘foreign’ (see Wallace), perhaps applied originally to the Welsh-speaking Strathclyde Britons, who survived as a separate group in Scotland well into the Middle Ages.

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

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

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Distribution of waugh Families in the US in 1920
Number of waugh families
 71-139
 24-70		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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