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The trowbridge Surname

trowbridge Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, named from Old English treow ‘tree’ + brycg ‘bridge’; the name probably referred to a felled trunk serving as a rough-and-ready bridge.

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

Distribution of trowbridge Families in the US in 1920
Number of trowbridge families
 76-150
 26-75		 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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