York Family History
- York Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England, or perhaps in some cases a regional name from the county of Yorkshire. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the British name Eburacum, which probably meant ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology into Old English Eoforwic (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wic ‘outlying settlement’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers in the area, who altered it back to opacity in the form Iorvík and eventually Iork, in which form it finally settled by the 13th century. The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,885,619 Historical Documents with York on Ancestry
- 1,220,486 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 295,480 Census and Voter Lists
- 259,820 Military Records
- 26,102 Immigration Records
- 1,083,731 Member Trees
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Number of York families
 376 - 749  126 - 375 |
 1 - 125  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of York families
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24 - 46 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
York 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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