Seward Family History
Seward Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name representing two
originally distinct personal names, Siward and Seward,
Old English Sigeweard and S?weard, composed of the
elements sige ‘victory’ and s? ‘sea’ + weard
‘guard’, ‘protect’. They became confused in the late Old English
period.English: occupational name for a swineherd, from Old
English su ‘pig’ + hierde ‘herdsman’.Irish: when
not of English origin (see 1 above) a reduced Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó Suaird, Ó Suairt, usually Anglicized as
Sword.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Seward
Name Distribution of Seward Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Seward families
 135 - 268  46 - 134 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Seward families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Seward census records
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Seward Family Origin
Seward Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Seward Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Seward Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Seward census records
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Military Service by Seward
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