Church Family History
Church Name Meaning
English: topographic surname for someone who lived near a
church. The word comes from Old English cyrice, ultimately from
medieval Greek kyrikon, for earlier kyriakon
(doma) ‘(house) of the Lord’, from kyrios
‘lord’.Translation of German Kirch.
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Name Distribution of Church Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Church families
 330 - 658  111 - 329 |
 1 - 110  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Church families
|
900 - 1,797 301 - 899 |
1 - 300 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Church families
|
38 - 73 13 - 37 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Church census records
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Church Family Origin
Church Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Church
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Church Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Church census records
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Church Civil War Service Records
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