Ord Family History
Ord Name Meaning
English (Northumbria) and Scottish: habitational name from East
Ord in Northumberland, named with Old English ord
‘point’. Compare Ort 3.English: from a Germanic
personal name (see Ort 2).Scottish: habitational name from
various minor places named with Gaelic ord ‘hammer’, used as a
topographical term for a rounded hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ord
Name Distribution of Ord Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ord families
 361 - 719  121 - 360 |
 1 - 120  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ord families
|
35 - 67 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ord census records
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Ord Family Origin
Ord Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ord Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ord census records
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