Hampson Family History
Hampson Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire): patronymic from the Norman
personal name Hamo, Hamon (see
Hammond).Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó hAmhsaigh ‘descendant of Amhsach’ a byname meaning
‘mercenary soldier’ or ‘messenger’, from the adjective amhasach
‘aggressive’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hampson
Name Distribution of Hampson Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hampson families
 1,966 - 3,930  656 - 1,965 |
 1 - 655  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hampson families
|
14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hampson census records
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Hampson Family Origin
Hampson Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hampson Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hampson Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hampson census records
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Military Service by Hampson
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