Firth Family History
Firth Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name from Old English
(ge)fyrhþe ‘woodland’ or ‘scrubland on the edge of a
forest’.Scottish: habitational name from Firth in Orkney.Welsh: topographic name from Welsh ffrith, ffridd
‘barren land’, ‘mountain pasture’ (a borrowing of the Old English word
mentioned in 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Firth
Name Distribution of Firth Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Firth families
 3,422 - 6,842  1,141 - 3,421 |
 1 - 1,140  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Firth families
|
71 - 139 24 - 70 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Firth census records
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Firth Family Origin
Firth Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Firth Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Firth families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Firth Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Firth census records
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Military Service by Firth
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