Birch Family History
- Birch Name Meaning
- English, German, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from a Germanic word meaning ‘birch’ (Old English birce ‘birch’, Middle High German birche, Old Danish birk). In some cases, the German name may be derived from places named with this word, such as Birch in Aargau (see Birke). In Swedish, the name is in many instances ornamental.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,381,142 Historical Documents with Birch on Ancestry
- 504,723 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 316,070 Census and Voter Lists
- 30,816 Military Records
- 39,456 Immigration Records
- 490,077 Member Trees
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Number of Birch families
 879 - 1,756  294 - 878 |
 1 - 293  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Birch families
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25 - 48 9 - 24 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Birch 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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