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The spencer Surname

spencer Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for someone employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’ + the agent suffix -er.

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

Distribution of spencer Families in the US in 1920
Number of spencer families
 727-1451
 243-726		 1-242
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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