Tew Family History
Tew Name Meaning
Welsh: nickname for a fat man, from tew ‘plump’.English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire
(Great, Little and Duns Tew), named with an Old English
tiewe ‘row’, ‘ridge’. The surname has been established in
Ireland since the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tew
Name Distribution of Tew Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tew families
 76 - 150  26 - 75 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tew families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tew census records
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Tew Family Origin
Tew Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Tew Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Tew census records
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Military Service by Tew
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