Corn Family History
- Corn Name Meaning
- English: nickname from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cran ‘crane’ (see Crane). English: from Middle English corn ‘grain’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a grain merchant or grower, or possibly a miller. English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hand mills, Old English cweorn. Altered spelling of German Korn or a shortened form of any of the composite names formed with this element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 339,584 Historical Documents with Corn on Ancestry
- 94,411 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 45,013 Census and Voter Lists
- 19,278 Military Records
- 4,527 Immigration Records
- 176,355 Member Trees
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Number of Corn families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Corn families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Corn 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
Corn census records
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