Sunderland Family History
Sunderland Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so called,
especially the city at the mouth of the river Wear. This, like other
places so called in Cumbria, Lancashire, and southern Scotland,
derives its name from Old English sundor ‘separate’ +
land ‘land’; a further example in Northumbria has the same
origin as Sutherland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sunderland
Name Distribution of Sunderland Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sunderland families
 1,209 - 2,416  404 - 1,208 |
 1 - 403  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sunderland families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sunderland census records
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Sunderland Family Origin
Sunderland Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sunderland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sunderland census records
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Military Service by Sunderland
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