Bolam Family History
Bolam Name Meaning
English (Northumberland): habitational name from places called
Bolam in Northumberland and County Durham. These place names could
derive from the dative plural (bolum) of either of two
unattested Old English words, bola ‘tree trunk’ (compare Old
Norse bolr) or bol ‘rounded hill’ (compare Middle Low
German bolle ‘round object’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bolam
Name Distribution of Bolam Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bolam families
 209 - 415  70 - 208 |
 1 - 69  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bolam families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bolam census records
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Bolam Family Origin
Bolam Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bolam Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bolam census records
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Military Service by Bolam
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