Shire Family History
Shire Name Meaning
English and Irish (County Limerick; of English origin): from Old
English scir, Middle English s(c)hire ‘shire’,
perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by the meeting place
of a shire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shire
Name Distribution of Shire Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shire families
 98 - 194  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shire families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shire census records
You can see how Shire families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Shire Family Origin
Shire Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Shire families immigrated
to the United States.
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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 New York Passenger Lists
Shire Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shire census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Shire ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Shire
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