Head Family History
- Head Name Meaning
- English (chiefly Kent): from Middle English heved ‘head’, applied as a nickname for someone with some peculiarity or disproportion of the head, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or at the head of a stream or valley. This surname has long been established in Ireland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,041,121 Historical Documents with Head on Ancestry
- 575,352 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 350,887 Census and Voter Lists
- 166,043 Military Records
- 22,285 Immigration Records
- 926,554 Member Trees
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Number of Head families
 849 - 1,695  284 - 848 |
 1 - 283  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Head families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Head 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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You can find out when most of the Head families immigrated to Australia. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Head census records
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