Blackburn Family History
Blackburn Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Blackburn, but especially the one in Lancashire, so named with Old
English blæc ‘dark’ + burna ‘stream’. The surname is
mainly found in northern England.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
1,220,369
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Blackburn
Name Distribution of Blackburn Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Blackburn families
 2,202 - 4,401  735 - 2,201 |
 1 - 734  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Blackburn families
|
63 - 124 22 - 62 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Blackburn census records
You can see how Blackburn families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Blackburn census records
>
Blackburn Family Origin
Blackburn Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Blackburn emigration records
You can find out when most of the Blackburn families immigrated
to the United States.
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.
View all Blackburn emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Blackburn Emigration Information (AU)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Blackburn emigration records
You can find out when most of the Blackburn 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.
View all Blackburn emigration records >
from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Blackburn Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Blackburn census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Blackburn ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Blackburn census records >
Military Service by Blackburn
Message Board about Blackburn
1129 Threads, 107
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Blackburn.
Threads: 1129 - Messages: 107
Start a FREE Blackburn family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×