Button Family History
Button Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of
buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob’, ‘lump’, specialized
to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Button
Name Distribution of Button Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Button families
 351 - 700  118 - 350 |
 1 - 117  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Button families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Button census records
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Button Family Origin
Button Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Button Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Button Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Button census records
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Military Service by Button
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