Frome Family History
Frome Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so called
from the rivers on which they stand, or simply a name for someone
living beside a river of this name, which is probably cognate with
Welsh ffraw ‘fair’, ‘fine’, ‘brisk’. Compare Frampton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Frome
Name Distribution of Frome Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Frome families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Frome census records
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Frome Family Origin
Frome Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Frome Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Frome Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Frome census records
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Military Service by Frome
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