Orum Family History
- Orum Name Meaning
- Danish: habitational name from any of several places called Órum, named as a compound of ór ‘gravel beach’ + hem ‘dwelling’. This name is also found in Norway, of Danish origin. English: variant of Orme 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 28,665 Historical Documents with Orum on Ancestry
- 12,797 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,376 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,239 Military Records
- 756 Immigration Records
- 8,497 Member Trees
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Number of Orum families
 16 - 30  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Orum census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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