Dillingham Family History
- Dillingham Name Meaning
- English: habitational name, probably from Dullingham in Cambridgeshire, named in Old English as ‘homestead (Old English ham) of the people (-inga-) of Dull(a)’ (an unattested personal name).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 354,539 Historical Documents with Dillingham on Ancestry
- 53,877 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 36,162 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,263 Military Records
- 3,682 Immigration Records
- 252,555 Member Trees
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Number of Dillingham families
 36 - 70  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dillingham census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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