Button Family History
Button Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of
buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob’, ‘lump’, specialized
to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner.
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Name Distribution of Button Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Button families
 164 - 326  55 - 163 |
 1 - 54  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Button families
|
351 - 700 118 - 350 |
1 - 117 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Button families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Button census records
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Button Family Origin
Button Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Button
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Button Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Button census records
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