Churchill Family History
Churchill Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places named
Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and
Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic
element crug ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old
English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English
hyll ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
818,365
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Churchill
Name Distribution of Churchill Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Churchill families
 366 - 730  123 - 365 |
 1 - 122  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Churchill families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Churchill census records
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Churchill Family Origin
Churchill Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Churchill families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Churchill Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Churchill families immigrated
to Australia.
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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 Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Churchill Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Churchill census records
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Military Service by Churchill
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