Howard Family History
- Howard Name Meaning
- English: from the Norman personal name Huard, Heward, composed of the Germanic elements hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. English: from the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Haward, composed of the Old Norse elements há ‘high’ + varðr ‘guardian’, ‘warden’. English: variant of Ewart 2. Irish: see Fogarty. Irish (County Clare) surname adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó hÍomhair, which was formerly Anglicized as O’Hure.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,648,949 Historical Documents with Howard on Ancestry
- 3,079,166 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
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- 364,944 Military Records
- 158,702 Immigration Records
- 4,226,496 Member Trees
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Number of Howard families
 3,757 - 7,511  1,253 - 3,756 |
 1 - 1,252  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Howard families
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50 - 98 17 - 49 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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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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from 1881 UK Census Data
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