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rothwell Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the places, in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, North Yorkshire, and elsewhere, so named from Old English roð(u) ‘clearing’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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

Distribution of rothwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of rothwell families
 39-76
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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