Sampson Family History
Sampson Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and Jewish: variant of Samson. The
-p- was introduced in the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew
name Shimshon. The English surname has also long been
established in Ireland. HH, DEB, EML, AB In North America, this
name has absorbed other European cognates, for example Greek
Sampsonakis, Sampsonides.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sampson
Name Distribution of Sampson Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sampson families
 525 - 1,047  176 - 524 |
 1 - 175  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sampson families
|
26 - 49 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sampson census records
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Sampson Family Origin
Sampson Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sampson Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sampson Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sampson census records
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Military Service by Sampson
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