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moor Name Meaning and History

English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh: variant spelling of Moore.

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moor Family Facts

Distribution of moor Families in the US in 1920
Number of moor families
 45-87
 16-44
 1-15
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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