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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Stanborough in Devon, so named from Old English stān ‘stone’ + beorg ‘hill’, ‘tumulus’. There is a place called Stanbury in West Yorkshire near Haworth, but it does not seem to have given rise to the surname.

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