Wednesday, August 5, 2009

What's in a name? Holcomb

HOLCOMB
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, and Somerset, so named from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’, ‘deep’ + cumb ‘valley’.

Place of
Origin
Holcomb Immigrants
England6
Germany2
Switzerland1
Norway1
London1
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

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