Lamb Family History
Lamb Name Meaning
English: from Middle English lamb, a nickname for a meek
and inoffensive person, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper
of lambs. See also Lamm.English: from a short form of the
personal name Lambert.Irish: reduced Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó Luain (see Lane 3). MacLysaght
comments: ‘The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than
usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much
more numerous than O’Loan itself.Possibly also a
translation of French agneau.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lamb
Name Distribution of Lamb Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lamb families
 1,082 - 2,161  361 - 1,081 |
 1 - 360  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lamb families
|
315 - 628 106 - 314 |
1 - 105 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lamb census records
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Lamb Family Origin
Lamb Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lamb Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Lamb families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Lamb Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lamb census records
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Military Service by Lamb
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