Hemphill Family History
- Hemphill Name Meaning
- Northern Irish, originally Scottish: habitational name from a place near Galston in Ayrshire, apparently so named from Old English henep ‘hemp’ + hyll ‘hill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 339,861 Historical Documents with Hemphill on Ancestry
- 97,982 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 67,244 Census and Voter Lists
- 15,756 Military Records
- 5,054 Immigration Records
- 153,825 Member Trees
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Number of Hemphill families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hemphill families
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47 - 92 16 - 46 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hemphill 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
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