Bosworth Family History
Bosworth Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Market Bosworth in Leicestershire,
so named with an Old English personal name Bosa + Old
English worð ‘enclosure’. Husbands Bosworth in
Leicestershire (Baresworde in Domesday Book) has a different
origin: an Old English personal name, Bar (from
bar ‘boar’) + worð.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bosworth
Name Distribution of Bosworth Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bosworth families
 98 - 193  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bosworth families
|
146 - 290 49 - 145 |
1 - 48 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bosworth families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bosworth census records
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Bosworth Family Origin
Bosworth Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bosworth
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Bosworth Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bosworth census records
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