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Help[Surname] CHURCH surname
I am looking for the original of the surname CHURCH. This part of the family is caucasian. I can date the name back to 1797. During the entire time the family lived in Alabama (Mississippi Territory before declared AL).
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English: topographic surname for someone who lived near a church. The word comes from Old English cyrice, ultimately from medieval Greek kyrikon, for earlier kyriakôn (dôma) ‘(house) of the Lord’, from kyrios ‘lord’.
Translation of German Kirch.
Translation of German Kirch.
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