Birch Family History
Birch Name Meaning
English, German, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone
who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from a Germanic word
meaning ‘birch’ (Old English birce ‘birch’, Middle High German
birche, Old Danish birk). In some cases, the German name
may be derived from places named with this word, such as Birch in
Aargau (see Birke). In Swedish, the name is in many instances
ornamental.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Birch
Name Distribution of Birch Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Birch families
 879 - 1,756  294 - 878 |
 1 - 293  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Birch families
|
25 - 48 9 - 24 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Birch census records
You can see how Birch families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Birch Family Origin
Birch Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Birch families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Birch Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Birch families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Birch Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Birch census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Birch ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Birch
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