Hamill Family History
Hamill Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Haineville
or Henneville in Manche, France, named from the Germanic personal name
Hagano + Old French ville ‘settlement’.English (Yorkshire): nickname for a scarred or maimed person, from
Middle English, Old English hamel ‘mutilated’, ‘crooked’.Irish (Ulster): according to MacLysaght, a shortened Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó hÁdhmaill ‘descendant of
Ádhmall’, which he derives from ádhmall ‘active’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hamill
Name Distribution of Hamill Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hamill families
 81 - 159  28 - 80 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hamill families
|
115 - 227 39 - 114 |
1 - 38 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hamill census records
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Hamill Family Origin
Hamill Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hamill Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hamill census records
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Military Service by Hamill
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