Gresham Family History
Gresham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Norfolk, so named from
Old English græs, gærs ‘grass(land)’, ‘pasturage’
+ 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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gresham
Name Distribution of Gresham Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gresham families
 69 - 135  24 - 68 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gresham families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gresham census records
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Gresham Family Origin
Gresham Emigration Information (US)
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Gresham Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gresham census records
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Military Service by Gresham
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