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canterbury Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Canterbury in Kent, named in Old English as Cantwaraburg ‘fortified town (burgh) of the people (wara) of Kent’.

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

Distribution of canterbury Families in the US in 1920
Number of canterbury families
 63-124
 22-62		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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