Basham Family History
- Basham Name Meaning
- English: habitational name of uncertain origin. It may be from places in Norfolk and Suffolk called Barsham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Bar ‘wild boar’ + Old English ham ‘homestead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 484,871 Historical Documents with Basham on Ancestry
- 83,123 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 43,308 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,055 Military Records
- 1,963 Immigration Records
- 349,422 Member Trees
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Number of Basham families
 115 - 227  39 - 114 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Basham census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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