Sutherland Family History
Sutherland Name Meaning
Scottish: regional name from the former county of this name, so
named from Old Norse suðr ‘south’ + land ‘land’
because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies
in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sutherland
Name Distribution of Sutherland Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sutherland families
 343 - 683  115 - 342 |
 1 - 114  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sutherland families
|
1,396 - 2,790 466 - 1,395 |
1 - 465 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sutherland census records
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Sutherland Family Origin
Sutherland Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sutherland Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Sutherland families immigrated
to Australia.
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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 Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sutherland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sutherland census records
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Military Service by Sutherland
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