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The markham Surname

markham Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire, named in Old English as ‘homestead at a (district) boundary’, from mearc ‘boundary’ + ham ‘homestead’.
  2. Irish: English surname used as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Marcacháin ‘descendant of Marcachán’, a diminutive of Marcach (see Markey). This is a Galway surname, which is sometimes ‘translated’ as Ryder.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of markham Families in the US in 1920
Number of markham families
 82-162
 28-81
 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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