Sterling Family History
Sterling Name Meaning
Scottish: variant spelling of Stirling.English: perhaps a variant of Starling.German:
from Middle High German sterlinc, the name of a coin, hence
probably a nickname for someone who paid that amount in rent.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sterling
Name Distribution of Sterling Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sterling families
 116 - 229  39 - 115 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sterling families
|
23 - 43 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sterling census records
You can see how Sterling families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Sterling Family Origin
Sterling Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Sterling emigration records
You can find out when most of the Sterling families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
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
Sterling Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Sterling families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
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 Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sterling Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sterling census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Sterling ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Sterling
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