Erskine Family History
- Erskine Name Meaning
- Scottish: habitational name from a place on the south bank of the Clyde outside Glasgow, first recorded in 1225 in the form Erskin. Other early spellings vary (1227 Yrskin; 1262 Ireskin; 1300 Harskin, Irschen).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 571,166 Historical Documents with Erskine on Ancestry
- 86,728 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 61,780 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,779 Military Records
- 29,001 Immigration Records
- 379,878 Member Trees
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Number of Erskine families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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148 - 293 50 - 147 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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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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