Drum Family History
Drum Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Droma
‘descendant of Droma’, a personal name, which may be from
druim ‘back’, ‘ridge’ and have been given originally to someone
with a deformed back.Scottish: habitational name from a place and
castle in Aberdeenshire named from Gaelic druim ‘ridge’.German: nickname from Middle Low German drum, Middle
High German trum ‘woodblock’, ‘uncouth person’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Drum
Name Distribution of Drum Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Drum families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Drum families
|
17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Drum census records
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Drum Family Origin
Drum Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Drum Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Drum census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Drum ancestors, such as occupation.
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Military Service by Drum
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