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westmoreland Name Meaning and History

Northern English: regional name for someone from the former country of this name, originally named in Old English as Westmoringaland ‘territory of the people living west of the moors (i.e. the Pennines)’.

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

Distribution of westmoreland Families in the US in 1920
Number of westmoreland families
 63-124
 22-62		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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