Bumpus Family History
Bumpus Name Meaning
English: nickname, of Norman origin, for someone who was a swift
walker, from Old French bon ‘good’ + pas ‘pace’. It may
also have been a topographic name, with the second element used in the
sense ‘passageway’. Compare Malpass.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bumpus
Name Distribution of Bumpus Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bumpus families
 32 - 62  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bumpus census records
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Bumpus Family Origin
Bumpus Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bumpus Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bumpus census records
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Military Service by Bumpus
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