Renshaw Family History
- Renshaw Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Renishaw in Derbyshire, named from the Middle English personal name Reynold + shawe ‘copse’. The name is still found chiefly in Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, and Lancashire.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 336,753 Historical Documents with Renshaw on Ancestry
- 139,469 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 66,832 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,015 Military Records
- 7,238 Immigration Records
- 114,199 Member Trees
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Number of Renshaw families
 552 - 1,101  185 - 551 |
 1 - 184  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Renshaw families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Renshaw 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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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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