Eldon Family History
Eldon Name Meaning
English: habitational name for someone from Eldon in County
Durham or Elveden in Suffolk. The first is named from the Old English
personal name Ella + dun ‘hill’; the second from Old
English elfitu ‘swan’ or elf ‘elf’, ‘fairy’ +
denu ‘valley’.English: nickname from Middle English
eld ‘old’ + hine ‘servant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Eldon
Name Distribution of Eldon Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Eldon families
 58 - 114  20 - 57 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Eldon families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Eldon census records
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Eldon Family Origin
Eldon Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Eldon Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Eldon census records
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Military Service by Eldon
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