Lord Family History
- Lord Name Meaning
- English: nickname from the vocabulary word lord, presumably for someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or perhaps one who had earned the title in some contest of skill or had played the part of the ‘Lord of Misrule’ in the Yuletide festivities. It may also have been an occupational name for a servant in the household of the lord of the manor, or possibly a status name for a landlord or the lord of the manor himself. The word itself derives from Old English hlaford, earlier hlaf-weard, literally ‘loaf-keeper’, since the lord or chief of a clan was responsible for providing food for his dependants. Irish: English name adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic Ó Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnáin (see McKiernan). French: nickname from Old French l’ord ‘the dirty one’. Possibly an altered spelling of Laur.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,332,999 Historical Documents with Lord on Ancestry
- 793,133 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 415,864 Census and Voter Lists
- 65,315 Military Records
- 46,805 Immigration Records
- 2,011,882 Member Trees
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Number of Lord families
 3,880 - 7,758  1,294 - 3,879 |
 1 - 1,293  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lord families
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17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lord 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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