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service Name Meaning and History

Scottish and English: metonymic occupational name for a brewer or a tavern-keeper, from Anglo-Norman French cerveise ‘ale’ (Old French cervoise, a word of Gaulish origin).

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

Distribution of service Families in the US in 1920
Number of service families
 28-54
 10-27		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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