Delph Family History
Delph Name Meaning
English: from Middle English delf ‘excavation’, ‘digging’
(Old English (ge)delf), hence a topographic name for someone
who lived by a ditch or quarry, a metonymic occupational name for a
ditch-cutter or quarryman, or alternatively a habitational name from
any of various places named with this word, as for example Delf in
Kent and Delph in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) and Yorkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Delph
Name Distribution of Delph Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Delph families
 21 - 39  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Delph census records
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Delph Family Origin
Delph Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Delph Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Delph
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