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spalding Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so called from the Old English tribal name Spaldingas ‘people of the district called Spald’. The district name probably means ‘ditches’, referring to drainage channels in the fenland.

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spalding Family Facts

Distribution of spalding Families in the US in 1920
Number of spalding families
 108-214
 37-107
 1-36
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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