Norfolk Family History
- Norfolk Name Meaning
- English: regional name from the county of Norfolk in East Anglia, so called from an Old English tribal name composed of the elements norð ‘north’ + folc ‘people’ (in contrast to the suðfolc of Suffolk).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 229,100 Historical Documents with Norfolk on Ancestry
- 60,565 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,740 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,151 Military Records
- 2,673 Immigration Records
- 123,971 Member Trees
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Number of Norfolk families
 132 - 261  45 - 131 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Norfolk last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Norfolk census records
You can see how Norfolk 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.
Click on a place to view Norfolk immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Norfolk 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 Norfolk 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
Norfolk census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Norfolk ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Norfolks fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
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