Buchan Family History
Buchan Name Meaning
Scottish: regional name from a district north of Aberdeen. There
was also a barony of Buchquane in Strathore, Fife, a settlement
called Buchan in Kirkcudbrightshire, and several other places in
Scotland so named, but these are less likely to be the source of the
surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Buchan Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Buchan families
 98 - 193  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Buchan families
|
1,063 - 2,123 355 - 1,062 |
1 - 354 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Buchan Family Origin
Buchan Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Buchan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Buchan
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