English: from Middle English, Old French sur(ri)gien
(from a derivative of Late Latin chirurgia ‘handiwork’), hence
an occupational name for a person who performed operations, mostly
amputations. Before the advent of anaesthetics, only crude surgery was
possible, and the calling was often combined with that of the barber
or bath house attendant.French: topographic name for
someone who lived close to a gushing spring. MTM.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
34,631
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Surgeon
Click on a place to view Surgeon immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk.
You can find out where the majority of the Surgeon families were living before
they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival, and destination.
Click on a circle in the chart to view Surgeon emigration records
You can find out when most of the Surgeon 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.
Did the Surgeons fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.