The banbury Surname
banbury Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Banbury, a place in Oxfordshire,
named with the unattested Old English personal name Ban(n)a
(possibly a byname meaning ‘felon’, ‘murderer’) + Old English
burh ‘fort’, dative byrig.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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