Halstead Family History
Halstead Name Meaning
habitational name from any of the various places
bearing this name, for example in Essex (Haltesteda in Domesday
Book), Kent, and Leicestershire, all of which are probably named from
Old English h(e)ald ‘refuge’, ‘shelter’ + stede ‘site’,
or possibly Hawstead in Suffolk, which has the same origin. However,
the name is now most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where it is
from High Halstead in Burnley, named as the ‘site of a hall’, from Old
English h(e)all ‘hall’ + stede ‘place’.occupational name for someone employed at ‘the hall buildings’,
Middle English hallested, an ostler or cowhand, for instance.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Halstead
Name Distribution of Halstead Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Halstead families
 640 - 1,277  214 - 639 |
 1 - 213  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Halstead families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Halstead census records
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Halstead Family Origin
Halstead Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Halstead Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Halstead 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
Halstead Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Halstead census records
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Military Service by Halstead
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