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berkshire Name Meaning and History

English: regional name denoting someone from the county of Berkshire in central southern England. The place name is derived from a Celtic name meaning ‘hilly place’ + Old English scir ‘shire’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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berkshire Family Facts

Distribution of berkshire Families in the US in 1920
Number of berkshire families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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GEORGE BERKSHIRE Wimbledon UK dDuncansonClark 0
Samuel W. Berkshire Obituary Laura R. 0
Decendants of Otho and John Alexander Berkshire annebrisco 6
Harry P. BERKSHIRE d. 20 January 1926 - Kansas City, MO JohnWOBrien 3
berkshire mandy 2
Tiberious Berkshire asmdg2 3
Otho descendents WWBrisco 0
berkshires marystrong60 12
Information jebenoit194 0
Berkshire - 1882 - Tuscarawas Co., OH DLaFromboise 0
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