Holme Family History
Holme Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish: topographic name for
someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a
divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main
development was towards modern English holly (see
Hollis).English and Scottish: topographic name or
habitational name from northern Middle English holm ‘island’,
Old Norse holmr (see Holm 1).Danish and Swedish:
variant of Holm 1.Norwegian: habitational name from
any of several farmsteads, so named from the dative singular of Old
Norse holmr ‘islet’, ‘low flat land beside a river’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Holme
Name Distribution of Holme Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Holme families
 364 - 726  122 - 363 |
 1 - 121  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Holme families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Holme census records
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Holme Family Origin
Holme Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Holme Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Holme
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