The ore Surname
ore Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from any of the places called Oare in Berkshire, Kent, and Wiltshire, or Ore in East Sussex, all named with Old English ora ‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped ridge’. It may also be a topographic name from the same element, though Reaney and Wilson consider that in general this would have had an initial N-. Compare Noah 2.
- Scottish: possibly from the Sussex place name.
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| ORE Charles W 1921-2002 |
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| Ore's in Missouri and Tennessee |
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| Helen S. Kosienski Ore, age 81, daughter of, Frank and Antonia Rosienski Kosienski. |
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| ORE, Alexander | ORE, Alexander | 4 |
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| James Ore in 1804 |
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| Eric Edward Isaacson Ore maybe Orre? | Sharie Merline | 0 |
| any unknown relatives out there? | stacey lynne ore | 16 |
| James Austin ORE of Bedford Co., Virginia | Lee | 3 |
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