Limburg Family History
- Limburg Name Meaning
- German: habitational name from any of several places so named, the largest being in Hesse. Dutch: habitational name from Limburg in the Belgian province of Liège or from Limbourg, in Haut-Rhin, France, both named with the Germanic elements lindo ‘lime tree’ + burg ‘fortified place’, or possibly also from the places mentioned at 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 93,924 Historical Documents with Limburg on Ancestry
- 25,591 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,898 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,499 Military Records
- 1,629 Immigration Records
- 59,307 Member Trees
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Number of Limburg families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Limburg 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
Limburg census records
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