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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of Dutch (van) Doesburg, a habitational name from Doesburg in Gelderland or possibly Duisburg in Germany.
  • Johannes Hendricksen van Doesburg (b. 1666 in Manhattan) had children called John and Mary Dosenborrow, Dusenbury, or Dusenberry.

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