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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from Roxburgh near Kelso, Scotland, so named from the genitive case of the Old English byname Hrōc, meaning ‘rook’, + Old English burh ‘fort’, ‘manor’ (see Bury).

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