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cottage Name Meaning and History

English (Cambridgeshire): unexplained; apparently from Norman French cotage, perhaps denoting the status of a cotter (see Cotter 2).

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cottage Family Facts

Distribution of cottage Families in the US in 1920
Number of cottage families
 4-5
 2-3
 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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