Bellingham Family History
Bellingham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places called Bellingham, in
Greater London (formerly in Kent) and Northumberland. The former is
named with Old English Beringaham ‘homestead (Old English
ham) of the followers of Be(o)ra’, a byname meaning
‘bear’; the latter seems to have been originally named as the
‘homestead of the dwellers at the bell’, from Old English belle
used in a transferred sense of a bell-shaped hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bellingham
Name Distribution of Bellingham Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bellingham families
 14 - 26  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bellingham families
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169 - 335 57 - 168 |
1 - 56 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bellingham families
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14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bellingham census records
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Bellingham Family Origin
Bellingham Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bellingham
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Bellingham Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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