Furness Family History
Furness Name Meaning
English: regional name from the district on the south coast of
Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire), earlier Fuðarnes, so named
from the genitive case (Fuðar) of Old Norse Fuð,
meaning ‘rump’, the name of the peninsula, formerly of an island
opposite the southern part of this district + Old Norse nes
‘headland’, ‘nose’.Norwegian: habitational name from any
of various farms, particularly in Møre og Romsdal, named Furnes,
from Old Norse fura ‘pine’ + nes ‘headland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Furness
Name Distribution of Furness Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Furness families
 375 - 748  126 - 374 |
 1 - 125  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Furness families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Furness census records
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Furness Family Origin
Furness Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Furness Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Furness families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Furness Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Furness census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Furness ancestors, such as occupation.
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Military Service by Furness
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