Alden Family History
Alden Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either
Aldan, a variant of Healfdane (see Haldane), or
Aldine, Old English Ealdwine, literally ‘old friend’,
but probably to be interpreted as ‘friend of the past’.Norwegian:
habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway, so named because
of its situation below a high mountain.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Alden
Name Distribution of Alden Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Alden families
 107 - 211  36 - 106 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Alden families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Alden census records
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Alden Family Origin
Alden Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Alden Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Alden
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