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The henderson Surname

henderson Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern Irish: patronymic from Hendry, a chiefly Scottish variant of the personal name Henry 1. Some Scottish families with this name have ancestors whose name was Henryson.

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

Distribution of henderson Families in the US in 1920
Number of henderson families
 1148-2293
 383-1147		 1-382
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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