Seaman Family History
Seaman Name Meaning
English (Norfolk): from a medieval continuation of the Old
English personal name S?mann, composed of the elements
s? ‘sea’ + mann ‘man’.English: occupational
name for a sailor.Americanized spelling of German and Jewish
Seemann.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Seaman
Name Distribution of Seaman Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Seaman families
 271 - 540  91 - 270 |
 1 - 90  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Seaman families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Seaman census records
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Seaman Family Origin
Seaman Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Seaman families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Seaman Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Seaman 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
Seaman Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Seaman census records
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Military Service by Seaman
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