Legg Family History
Legg Name Meaning
English (chiefly West Country): metonymic nickname for someone with
some malformation or peculiarity of the leg, or just with particularly
long legs, from Middle English legg (Old Norse leggr).
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Legg
Name Distribution of Legg Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Legg families
 532 - 1,062  178 - 531 |
 1 - 177  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Legg families
|
58 - 113 20 - 57 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Legg census records
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Legg Family Origin
Legg Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Legg Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Legg census records
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Military Service by Legg
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