Bush Family History
Bush Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area
or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from
Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc);
alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a
personal name.Americanized spelling of German
Busch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bush Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bush families
 647 - 1,292  216 - 646 |
 1 - 215  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bush families
|
842 - 1,682 281 - 841 |
1 - 280 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bush families
|
12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bush census records
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Bush Family Origin
Bush Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bush
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bush Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bush census records
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Bush Civil War Service Records
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