Loch Family History
Loch Name Meaning
German: topographic name from Middle High German loch
‘hollow’, ‘valley’, ‘hole’.Scottish: topographic name for
someone who lived by a loch or lake, or, according to Black,
specifically from Portmore Loch in Eddleston.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Loch
Name Distribution of Loch Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Loch families
 31 - 60  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Loch families
|
33 - 64 12 - 32 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Loch census records
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Loch Family Origin
Loch Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Loch Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Loch census records
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Military Service by Loch
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