Salmon Family History
Salmon Name Meaning
English and French: from the Middle English, Old French
personal name Salmon, Saumon, a reduced form of
Salomon (see Solomon).Jewish (Ashkenazic):
from the Yiddish male personal name Zalmen, derived via a
German form from Hebrew Shelomo (see Solomon).Irish: part translation of Gaelic Ó Bradáin
‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name, probably from
bradach ‘spirited’, but written the same as a word meaning
‘salmon’; this name is also sometimes translated Fisher. The
English surname is also present in Ireland (chiefly in counties Leix
and Kilkenny).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Salmon
Name Distribution of Salmon Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Salmon families
 719 - 1,435  240 - 718 |
 1 - 239  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Salmon families
|
40 - 78 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Salmon census records
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Salmon Family Origin
Salmon Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Salmon Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Salmon Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Salmon census records
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Military Service by Salmon
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