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Shrewsbury

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Shrewsbury in Shropshire, which is named from an ancient district name derived from Old English scrobb ‘scrub’, ‘brushwood’, + Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified place’.

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