Eccles Family History
Eccles Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from places near
Manchester, in Berwickshire Dumfriesshire, and elsewhere, all named
from the British word that lies behind Welsh eglwys ‘church’
(from Latin ecclesia, Greek ekklesia ‘gathering’,
‘assembly’). Such places would have been the sites of notable
pre-Anglo-Saxon churches or Christian communities.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Eccles Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Eccles families
 1,519 - 3,035  507 - 1,518 |
 1 - 506  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Eccles families
|
40 - 77 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Eccles Family Origin
Eccles Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Eccles Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Eccles Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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