Hamilton Family History
Hamilton Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from what is now a
deserted village in the parish of Barkby, Leicestershire. This is
named from Old English hamel ‘crooked’ + dun
‘hill’. Hamilton near Glasgow was founded by the Hamiltons and named
after them. In Ireland, this name may have replaced Hamill in a
few cases. It has also been used as the equivalent of the Irish (Cork)
name Ó hUrmholtaigh.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hamilton
Name Distribution of Hamilton Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hamilton families
 899 - 1,796  300 - 898 |
 1 - 299  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hamilton families
|
3,679 - 7,355 1,227 - 3,678 |
1 - 1,226 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hamilton Family Origin
Hamilton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hamilton Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hamilton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hamilton census records
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