Lord Family History
Lord Name Meaning
English: nickname from the vocabulary word lord,
presumably for someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or perhaps one
who had earned the title in some contest of skill or had played the
part of the ‘Lord of Misrule’ in the Yuletide festivities. It may also
have been an occupational name for a servant in the household of the
lord of the manor, or possibly a status name for a landlord or the
lord of the manor himself. The word itself derives from Old English
hlaford, earlier hlaf-weard, literally
‘loaf-keeper’, since the lord or chief of a clan was responsible for
providing food for his dependants.Irish: English name
adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic Ó
Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnáin
(see McKiernan).French: nickname from Old French
l’ord ‘the dirty one’.Possibly an altered spelling of
Laur.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lord Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lord families
 3,880 - 7,758  1,294 - 3,879 |
 1 - 1,293  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lord families
|
17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lord Family Origin
Lord Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lord Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Lord Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lord census records
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