Strand Family History
Strand Name Meaning
North German, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone
who lived by the seashore, from Middle Low German, Danish, Swedish
strand ‘shore’ OV, LP. In some cases the Swedish name may
have been ornamental.Norwegian: habitational name from any
of numerous farmsteads so named, from strand ‘shore’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Strand
Name Distribution of Strand Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Strand families
 91 - 180  31 - 90 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Strand families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Strand census records
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Strand Family Origin
Strand Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Strand 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
Strand Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Strand census records
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Military Service by Strand
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