Roxburgh Family History
Roxburgh Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Roxburgh near Kelso, Scotland, so
named from the genitive case of the Old English byname Hroc,
meaning ‘rook’, + Old English burh ‘fort’, ‘manor’ (see
Bury).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Roxburgh
Name Distribution of Roxburgh Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Roxburgh families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roxburgh families
|
92 - 182 31 - 91 |
1 - 30 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roxburgh census records
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Roxburgh Family Origin
Roxburgh Emigration Information (US)
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Roxburgh Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Roxburgh census records
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Military Service by Roxburgh
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