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Birmingham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Birmingham in the West Midlands. In
Domesday Book the name is already found as Bermingeham, but it
seems likely that it was originally Beornmundingaham
‘homestead (Old English ham) of the people of
(-inga-) Beornmund’, a personal name composed of the
elements beorn ‘young man’, ‘warrior’ + mund
‘protection’. This name is well established in Ireland (see
Bermingham).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Birmingham
Name Distribution of Birmingham Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Birmingham families
 65 - 128  22 - 64 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Birmingham families
|
89 - 175 30 - 88 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Birmingham families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Birmingham census records
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Birmingham Family Origin
Birmingham Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Birmingham
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Birmingham Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Birmingham census records
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Birmingham Civil War Service Records
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