Bean Family History
Bean Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of
beans, from Old English bean ‘beans’ (a collective
singular). Occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for a
someone considered of little importance.English: nickname for a
pleasant person, from Middle English bene ‘friendly’,
‘amiable’ (of unknown origin; there is apparently no connection with
Bain or Bon).Scottish: Anglicized form of
the Gaelic personal name Beathán, a diminutive of
beatha ‘life’.Translation of German Bohne, or
an altered spelling of Biehn. See also Bihn.Mistranslation of French Lefevre. As the vocabulary word
fèvre ‘smith’ was replaced by forgeron, the meaning
of the old word became opaque, and the surname was reinterpreted as if
it were La fève, from fève ‘(fava) bean’. Lefevre
is the most common name in French Canada; great numbers of them
migrated to the US, where many adopted the name Bean, in the belief
that it was a translation of Lefèvre. See also
Lafave.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bean
Name Distribution of Bean Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bean families
 626 - 1,250  209 - 625 |
 1 - 208  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bean families
|
38 - 74 13 - 37 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bean census records
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Bean Family Origin
Bean Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bean Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bean Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bean census records
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