Somerville Family History
Somerville Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name, probably from
Graveron Sémerville in Nord, named with the Germanic personal name
Sigimar (see Siemer) + Old French ville
‘settlement’.Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Somacháin (see Summers).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Somerville
Name Distribution of Somerville Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Somerville families
 126 - 250  43 - 125 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Somerville families
|
381 - 759 128 - 380 |
1 - 127 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Somerville Family Origin
Somerville Emigration Information (US)
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Somerville Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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