Kirkham Family History
Kirkham Name Meaning
Northern English: habitational name from places in Lancashire
and North Yorkshire named Kirkham, which is a scandinavianized form of
Old English ciric-ham, from cirice ‘church’ +
ham ‘homestead’.Possibly a respelling of German
Kirchham, a habitational name from either of two places named
Kirchham, in Austria or Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kirkham
Name Distribution of Kirkham Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kirkham families
 845 - 1,687  282 - 844 |
 1 - 281  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kirkham families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kirkham census records
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Kirkham Family Origin
Kirkham Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kirkham Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Kirkham families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kirkham Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kirkham census records
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Military Service by Kirkham
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