Main Family History
- Main Name Meaning
- Scottish: from a reduced form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus. Scottish: topographic name for a farmer who farmed the main farm on an estate. Scottish, English (of Norman origin), and French: from the Continental Germanic personal name Maino, Meino, a short form of the various compound names with a first element magin ‘strength’, ‘might’. Scottish and English (of Norman origin): regional name for someone from the French province of Maine. Compare Mansell 1. Scottish and English (of Norman origin): nickname for a large man, from Anglo-Norman French magne, maine ‘big’. Scottish, English (of Norman origin), and French: nickname for someone with a deformed or missing hand, from Old French main ‘hand’ (Latin manus).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,097,930 Historical Documents with Main on Ancestry
- 250,085 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 197,492 Census and Voter Lists
- 49,781 Military Records
- 85,904 Immigration Records
- 514,668 Member Trees
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Number of Main families
 130 - 258  44 - 129 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Main families
|
327 - 651 110 - 326 |
1 - 109 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Main census records
You can see how Main families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Main families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Main families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Main census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Main ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Mains fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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