Kalmus Family History
- Kalmus Name Meaning
- Polish, Czech, German, Estonian, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Luxembourgeois: metonymic occupational name for a herbalist, from kalmus ‘calamus’, a plant with medicinal properties, a kind of reed or cane. from the personal name Kalmus, related to Kalman.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,477 Historical Documents with Kalmus on Ancestry
- 5,531 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,473 Census and Voter Lists
- 826 Military Records
- 1,222 Immigration Records
- 1,425 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kalmus census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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