Durham Family History
Durham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Durham, a city in northeastern
England, named from Old English dun ‘hill’ (see Down
1) + Old Norse holmr ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Durham
Name Distribution of Durham Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Durham families
 262 - 521  88 - 261 |
 1 - 87  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Durham families
|
33 - 64 12 - 32 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Durham census records
You can see how Durham families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Durham Family Origin
Durham Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Durham families immigrated
to the United States.
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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 New York Passenger Lists
Durham Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Durham census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Durham ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Durham
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