Eastham Family History
Eastham Name Meaning
English: habitational name, now chiefly found in Lancashire, from
any of various places so named from Old English east ‘east’
+ ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’. There are
places so named in Cheshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire, the first
of which seems to have contributed most to the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Eastham Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Eastham families
 794 - 1,586  265 - 793 |
 1 - 264  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Eastham Family Origin
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