Cheshire Family History
Cheshire Name Meaning
English: regional name for someone from the county of Cheshire in
northwestern England, the name of which is recorded in Domesday Book
as Cestrescire, from the name of the county seat,
Chester, + Old English scir ‘district’,
‘division’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cheshire
Name Distribution of Cheshire Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cheshire families
 152 - 301  51 - 151 |
 1 - 50  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cheshire families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cheshire census records
You can see how Cheshire families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Cheshire Family Origin
Cheshire Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Cheshire families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cheshire Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cheshire census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Cheshire ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Cheshire
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