Shepherd Family History
Shepherd Name Meaning
English: from Middle English schepherde ‘shepherd’ (composed
of words meaning ‘sheep’ + ‘herdsman’ or ‘guardian’), hence an
occupational name for a shepherd. This English form of the name has
absorbed cognates and equivalents from several other languages (for
forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shepherd
Name Distribution of Shepherd Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shepherd families
 1,898 - 3,793  633 - 1,897 |
 1 - 632  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shepherd families
|
280 - 558 94 - 279 |
1 - 93 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shepherd census records
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Shepherd Family Origin
Shepherd Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Shepherd Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Shepherd Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shepherd census records
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Military Service by Shepherd
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