Okuma Family History
- Okuma Name Meaning
- Japanese: it is uncertain whether instances of this name in America are Okuma meaning ‘large bear’, found mostly in eastern Japan, or Okuma, meaning ‘interior space’, found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands. One noble family bearing the former lived in the far west of Japan, in Hizen (now Nagasaki prefecture).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,504 Historical Documents with Okuma on Ancestry
- 1,294 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 516 Census and Voter Lists
- 238 Military Records
- 1,270 Immigration Records
- 186 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Okuma 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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