Methven Family History
- Methven Name Meaning
- Scottish: habitational name from Methven near Perth, recorded in 1150 in the form Matefen, at the end of the same century as Mafen, and at the beginning of the 13th century as Methfen. The place name is probably cognate with Welsh medd ‘mead’ + maen (mutated to faen) ‘stone’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 48,619 Historical Documents with Methven on Ancestry
- 11,634 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,219 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,081 Military Records
- 2,225 Immigration Records
- 19,460 Member Trees
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Number of Methven families
 24 - 45  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Methven families
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146 - 289 49 - 145 |
1 - 48 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Methven census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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