Marksbury Family History
Marksbury Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Marksbury in Somerset (now Avon),
which was named in Old English either as ‘M?rec’s or
Mearc’s stronghold’ (from an Old English male personal name +
burh ‘stronghold’, ‘fortified place’, dative byrig), or
as ‘stronghold on a boundary’ (from mearc ‘boundary’, possibly
a reference to the Wansdyke, + burh, byrig).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Marksbury
Name Distribution of Marksbury Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Marksbury families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Marksbury families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Marksbury Family Origin
Marksbury Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Marksbury
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Marksbury Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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