Farnham Family History
Farnham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so called.
Most, including those in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Suffolk,
Surrey, and West Yorkshire, are named from Old English fearn
‘fern’ + ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in
by water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Farnham
Name Distribution of Farnham Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Farnham families
 85 - 168  29 - 84 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Farnham families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Farnham census records
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Farnham Family Origin
Farnham Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Farnham Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Farnham census records
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Military Service by Farnham
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