Last name: WOODBURY
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WOODBURY : This last name is indexed 49,940 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WOODBURY : English (Somerset and Devon): habitational name from Woodbury in Devon named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + byrig dative of burg ‘fortress’ or from either of two places called Woodborough in Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire placename has the same origin as Woodbury in Devon. Woodborough in Wiltshire is named with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
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