Last name: SHREWSBURY
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SHREWSBURY : This last name is indexed 11,928 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHREWSBURY : English: habitational name from Shrewsbury (Shropshire) probably from Old English scrobb (genitive scrobbes) a variant of scrubb scrybb ‘shrub brushwood’ + burg ‘fortress’.
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