Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places called Aldborough (in Norfolk and North Yorkshire) or Aldbrough (in East and North Yorkshire), or possibly a variant of Albury. All of these places were named with Old English eald ‘old’ + burh ‘stronghold’.
  • A John Albro came to New England from England in 1634 and settled in Rhode Island in 1638.