Temple Family History
- Temple Name Meaning
- English and French: occupational name or habitational name for someone who was employed at or lived near one of the houses (‘temples’) maintained by the Knights Templar, a crusading order so named because they claimed to occupy in Jerusalem the site of the old temple (Middle English, Old French temple, Latin templum). The order was founded in 1118 and flourished for 200 years, but was suppressed as heretical in 1312. English: name given to foundlings baptized at the Temple Church, London, so called because it was originally built on land belonging to the Templars. Scottish: habitational name from the parish of Temple in Edinburgh, likewise named because it was the site of the local headquarters of the Knights Templar.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,389,717 Historical Documents with Temple on Ancestry
- 352,982 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 212,739 Census and Voter Lists
- 36,072 Military Records
- 17,027 Immigration Records
- 770,897 Member Trees
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Number of Temple families
 314 - 626  105 - 313 |
 1 - 104  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Temple families
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56 - 110 19 - 55 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Temple 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 1881 UK Census Data
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