Holderness Family History
Holderness Name Meaning
English: regional name from the coastal district of eastern
Yorkshire (now Humberside), the origin of which is probably Old Norse
holdr, within the Danelaw (the region of pre-conquest
England where Danish rule and custom was dominant) a rank of feudal
nobility immediately below that of earl, + nes ‘nose’,
‘headland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Holderness
Name Distribution of Holderness Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Holderness families
 63 - 124  22 - 62 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Holderness census records
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Holderness Family Origin
Holderness Emigration Information (US)
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Holderness Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Holderness census records
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Military Service by Holderness
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