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Viroqua was my great-grandmother’s middle name. The family is Welsh going back more than a thousand years. My great-great grandparents immigrated to the United States in the mid 1800’s with their oldest son. My great-grandmother was born a few years later. No one in my family knows where the name originated, she is the only one in my family tree to have it as far as I have been able to find.All I know for sure is that she hated the name but not why. Personally, I think it’s a beautiful name and I wish I knew more about it. I wish I could be more helpful.