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).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Legg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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