Buchanan Family History
Buchanan Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Buchanan, a place near Loch
Lomond, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the
canon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Buchanan
Name Distribution of Buchanan Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Buchanan families
 185 - 368  62 - 184 |
 1 - 61  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Buchanan families
|
1,318 - 2,633 440 - 1,317 |
1 - 439 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Buchanan census records
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Buchanan Family Origin
Buchanan Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Buchanan Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Buchanan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Buchanan census records
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Military Service by Buchanan
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