The wiltshire Surname

wiltshire Name Meaning and History

English: regional name from the county of Wiltshire in southwest central England, which gets its name from Wilton (once the county’s principal town) + Old English scir ‘district’, ‘administrative division’.

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

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wiltshire Family Facts

Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Emigration Year (US)Emigration Year (AU)Ports of Departure Occupations

Distribution of wiltshire Families in the US in 1920

Number of wiltshire families

26-50

9-25

1-8

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thread	Author	Replies
Ethel Wiltshire	horsham_library	0
surname of WILTSHIRE	vald	0
Stanley Alfred WILTSHIRE	kev782	0
Geore Wiltshire of Louisa Co Va	oclarke11	0
Wiltshires of Carroll County, MS	Barbara Munson	6
Wiltshires from Winterbourne/Bristol	ksimpson74	0
Wiltshire family in the UK	DavidWiltshire65	26
Jesse Wiltshire born 1878 Rochester, Kent	Ernie526	0
Wiltshire family in Bristol, England	holmes187	22
Wiltshire family tree from 1999 back to 1850	J Wiltshire	13

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