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risby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Lincolnshire, Suffolk, and East Yorkshire, so named from Old Norse hrís ‘brushwood’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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risby Family Facts

Distribution of risby Families in the US in 1920
Number of risby families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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