Shield Family History
Shield Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for an armorer, from
Middle English scheld ‘shield’ (Old English scild,
sceld).English: topographic name for someone who lived
near the shallow part of a river, from Middle English scheld
‘shallow place’ (Old English sceldu, scieldu).Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail ‘descendant
of Siadhal’ (see Shields).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shield
Name Distribution of Shield Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shield families
 207 - 412  70 - 206 |
 1 - 69  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shield families
|
11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shield census records
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Shield Family Origin
Shield Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Shield families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Shield Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shield census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Shield ancestors, such as occupation.
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Military Service by Shield
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