Horsfall Family History
- Horsfall Name Meaning
- English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Horsefall in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English hors ‘horse’ (perhaps a byname) + fall ‘clearing’, ‘place where the trees have been felled’ (from fellan ‘to fell’, causative of feallan ‘to fall’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 254,761 Historical Documents with Horsfall on Ancestry
- 95,666 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 71,563 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,149 Military Records
- 6,729 Immigration Records
- 76,654 Member Trees
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Number of Horsfall families
 1,072 - 2,142  358 - 1,071 |
 1 - 357  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Horsfall families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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