Wareham Family History
Wareham Name Meaning
English: habitational name for someone from either of the places
called Warham, in Herefordshire and Norfolk, or from Wareham in
Dorset. All are named with Old English wær ‘weir’ + either
ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by
water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wareham
Name Distribution of Wareham Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wareham families
 192 - 381  65 - 191 |
 1 - 64  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wareham families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wareham census records
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Wareham Family Origin
Wareham Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wareham Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wareham census records
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Military Service by Wareham
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