Westmoreland Family History
Westmoreland Name Meaning
Northern English: regional name for someone from the former country
of this name, originally named in Old English as
Westmoringaland ‘territory of the people living west of the
moors (i.e. the Pennines)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Westmoreland
Name Distribution of Westmoreland Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Westmoreland families
 163 - 323  55 - 162 |
 1 - 54  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Westmoreland families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Westmoreland census records
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Westmoreland Family Origin
Westmoreland Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Westmoreland Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Westmoreland 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
Westmoreland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Westmoreland census records
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Military Service by Westmoreland
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