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The walsh Surname

walsh Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Breathnach ‘Briton’. It was used in particular to denote the Welshmen who arrived in Ireland in the wake of Strongbow’s Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170.

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

Distribution of walsh Families in the US in 1920
Number of walsh families
 2418-4834
 807-2417		 1-806
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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