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What nationality islast name torbush?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: English, or Scottish, Not Irish. the Ending "Bush" imeans some one who lived a bushy area, close to the forrest, it is a geograifcal name, the tor, is in referench to what part or area the Bush is located, Forbush is in the front, Braebush, is in the briar patch of the bush. common in many English and Southern Scottish names of the 15-1700s, Northern states up until the 1880s was predominantly of English Extract, and Georgia had mostly English, Scotch? Irish and some German for the White Nationalities. Torbush as a name has been in US before large immigrations of other european countries, and never a large surname, before 1860 it is mostly in New York and Connecticut, New Hampshire, a few in South Carolina and Georgia. After 1870 it is still in those states, but now found in most predominatnly in Georgia, Atlanta area, where it is 50/50 white and Black. by the 1930 Census it is mostly Georgia, Atlanta area, and still 50/50 it seems black and white.