Cord Family History
Cord Name Meaning
Northern Irish: reduced form of McCord.Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Corde, from Old
French corde ‘string’, ‘rope’ (Latin c(h)orda, from
Greek khorde), a metonymic occupational name for a maker of
cord or string, or a nickname for a habitual wearer of decorative ties
and ribbons.Dutch: variant of Kort ‘short’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cord
Name Distribution of Cord Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cord families
 13 - 24  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cord families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cord census records
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Cord Family Origin
Cord Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cord Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cord census records
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