Leeds Family History
Leeds Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city in West Yorkshire, or the
place in Kent. The former is of British origin, appearing in Bede in
the form Loidis ‘People of the Lat’, (Lat
being an earlier name of the river Aire, meaning ‘the violent
one’). Loidis was originally a district name, but was subsequently
restricted to the city. The Kentish place name may be from an Old
English stream name hl¯de ‘loud, rushing stream’.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Leeds
Name Distribution of Leeds Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leeds families
 66 - 130  23 - 65 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leeds families
|
12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leeds census records
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Leeds Family Origin
Leeds Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Leeds Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Leeds census records
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