Yeoman Family History
Yeoman Name Meaning
status name, from Middle English
yoman, yeman, used of an attendant of relatively high
status in a noble household, ranking between a Sergeant and a
Groom, or between a Squire and a Page. The word
appears to derive from a compound of Old English geong ‘young’
+ mann ‘man’. Later in the Middle English period it came to be
used of a modest independent freeholder, and this latter sense may
well lie behind some examples of the surname.topographic name, an
expanded form of Yeo.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Yeoman Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Yeoman families
 137 - 272  46 - 136 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Yeoman families
|
23 - 43 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Yeoman census records
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Yeoman Family Origin
Yeoman Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Yeoman Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Yeoman census records
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Military Service by Yeoman
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