Butterworth Family History
Butterworth Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from places
named Butterworth in Lancashire (near Rochdale) and in West
Yorkshire. Both are so named with Old English butere ‘butter’ +
worð ‘enclosure’. The surname is recorded from an early date
in each of these two places; it probably arose independently in each.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Butterworth
Name Distribution of Butterworth Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Butterworth families
 3,872 - 7,742  1,291 - 3,871 |
 1 - 1,290  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Butterworth families
|
16 - 29 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Butterworth census records
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Butterworth Family Origin
Butterworth Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Butterworth Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Butterworth Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Butterworth census records
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Military Service by Butterworth
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