Henshaw Family History
Henshaw Name Meaning
habitational name from
a place in Northumberland, so called from the genitive case of the Old
English personal name Heðin (from a short form of the
rare compound names formed with h?ð ‘heath’ as the first
element) + Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.habitational
name from a place in the parish of Prestbury, Cheshire, and from a
lost place in southeastern Lancashire, both named from Middle English
hen ‘hen’ + shaw ‘wood’. The name de Henneshagh
occurs at Rochdale as early as 1325.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Henshaw Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Henshaw families
 358 - 714  120 - 357 |
 1 - 119  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Henshaw families
|
11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Henshaw Family Origin
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Henshaw Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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