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eastham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name, now chiefly found in Lancashire, from any of various places so named from Old English east ‘east’ + ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’. There are places so named in Cheshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire, the first of which seems to have contributed most to the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of eastham Families in the US in 1920
Number of eastham families
 17-32
 6-16		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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