Orchard Family History
Orchard Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an orchard,
or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower, from Middle
English orchard.English: habitational name from any of the
places called Orchard. Those in Devon and Somerset are named from Old
English ortgeard, orceard (a compound of wort,
wyrt ‘plant’ (later associated with Latin hortus
‘garden’) + geard ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’), while East and West
Orchard near Shaftesbury in Dorset have a different origin, ‘(place)
beside the wood’, from Celtic ar + ced.Scottish: English surname adopted as equivalent of
Urquhart.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Orchard
Name Distribution of Orchard Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Orchard families
 269 - 535  90 - 268 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Orchard families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Orchard census records
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Orchard Family Origin
Orchard Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Orchard Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Orchard families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Orchard Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Orchard census records
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Military Service by Orchard
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