Kinghorn Family History
Kinghorn Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Kinghorn in Fife. This is recorded
as Kyngorn in 1374; it is named in Gaelic from ceann
‘head’, ‘height’ + gronna ‘bog’. The modern spelling is the
result of folk etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kinghorn Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kinghorn families
 71 - 139  24 - 70 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kinghorn families
|
86 - 170 29 - 85 |
1 - 28 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kinghorn census records
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Kinghorn Family Origin
Kinghorn Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kinghorn Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kinghorn Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kinghorn census records
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Military Service by Kinghorn
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