Fossum Family History
- Fossum Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named, especially in eastern Norway. The farm name, Forsheimr in Old Norse, is composed of the elements fors ‘waterfall’ + heimr ‘homestead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,551 Historical Documents with Fossum on Ancestry
- 18,517 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,337 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,651 Military Records
- 2,285 Immigration Records
- 20,761 Member Trees
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Number of Fossum families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fossum census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Fossum census records
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