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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old Danish personal name Wraghi.
  • One of the leading figures in colonial Charlestown, SC, during the early 18th century was Samuel Wragg (1714–77), who was made a baron for his services to the colony and the crown; as a Loyalist, he was banished from the colony in 1777.

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