Spence Family History
Spence Name Meaning
English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a servant
employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle
English spense ‘larder’, ‘storeroom’ (a reduced form of Old
French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of
dispendere, past participle dispensus, ‘to weigh out or
dispense’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Spence
Name Distribution of Spence Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Spence families
 1,014 - 2,026  339 - 1,013 |
 1 - 338  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Spence families
|
439 - 875 147 - 438 |
1 - 146 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Spence census records
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Spence Family Origin
Spence Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Spence Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Spence Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Spence census records
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Military Service by Spence
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