Featherstone Family History
Featherstone Name Meaning
Northern English: habitational name from places in Staffordshire,
West Yorkshire, and Northumberland, which are so called from Old
English feðerstan ‘tetralith’, a prehistoric structure
consisting of three upright stones capped with a headstone (from Old
English fe(o)ðer- ‘four’ + stan ‘stone’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Featherstone
Name Distribution of Featherstone Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Featherstone families
 374 - 746  125 - 373 |
 1 - 124  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Featherstone families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Featherstone census records
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Featherstone Family Origin
Featherstone Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Featherstone Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Featherstone census records
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Military Service by Featherstone
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