Hurst Family History
Hurst Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived on a wooded
hill, Old English hyrst, or habitational name from one of the
various places named with this word, for example Hurst in Berkshire,
Kent, Somerset, and Warwickshire, or Hirst in Northumberland and West
Yorkshire.Irish: re-Anglicized form of de Horsaigh,
Gaelicized form of the English habitational name Horsey,
established in Ireland since the 13th century.German:
topographic name from Middle High German hurst ‘woodland’,
‘thicket’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hurst
Name Distribution of Hurst Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hurst families
 1,794 - 3,585  599 - 1,793 |
 1 - 598  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hurst families
|
22 - 41 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hurst census records
You can see how Hurst families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Hurst Family Origin
Hurst Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Hurst families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hurst Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Hurst families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hurst Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hurst census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Hurst ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Hurst
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