Kelm Family History
Kelm Name Meaning
Germanized form of Polish Chelm ‘peak’, ‘hill’, a
topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a pointed
summit, or habitational name from a city in eastern Poland or any of
various other places named with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kelm
Name Distribution of Kelm Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kelm families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kelm families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kelm census records
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Kelm Family Origin
Kelm Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kelm Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kelm census records
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Military Service by Kelm
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