Welsh Family History
Welsh Name Meaning
Scottish and English: ethnic name for someone from Wales or a
speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and
Wallace.Irish: variant of Walsh.Americanized
spelling of German Welsch.Americanized form of Ukrainian
Volosin (see Woloszyn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Welsh
Name Distribution of Welsh Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Welsh families
 852 - 1,701  285 - 851 |
 1 - 284  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Welsh families
|
608 - 1,213 203 - 607 |
1 - 202 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Welsh census records
You can see how Welsh families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Welsh Family Origin
Welsh Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Welsh emigration records
You can find out when most of the Welsh 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.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Welsh Emigration Information (AU)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Welsh emigration records
You can find out when most of the Welsh families immigrated
to Australia.
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.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Welsh Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Welsh census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Welsh ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Welsh
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