Sedgwick Family History
Sedgwick Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Sedgwick in Cumbria, so named from
the Middle English personal name Sigg(e) (from Old Norse
Siggi or Old English Sicg, short forms of the various
compound names with the first element ‘victory’) + Old English
wic ‘outlying settlement’, ‘dairy farm’; or from Sedgewick
in Sussex, named with Old English secg ‘sedge’ +
wic.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sedgwick
Name Distribution of Sedgwick Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sedgwick families
 423 - 844  142 - 422 |
 1 - 141  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sedgwick families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sedgwick Family Origin
Sedgwick Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sedgwick Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sedgwick Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sedgwick census records
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