topographic name for someone who lived by a hedgerow
or in a row of houses built next to one another, from Middle English
row (northern Middle English raw, from Old English
raw).from the medieval personal name Row,
a variant of Rou(l) (see Rollo, Rolf) or a short
form of Rowland.English name adopted by bearers of French
Baillargeon.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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