Churchill Family History
Churchill Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places named
Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and
Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic
element crug ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old
English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English
hyll ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Churchill
Name Distribution of Churchill Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Churchill families
 175 - 347  59 - 174 |
 1 - 58  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Churchill families
|
366 - 730 123 - 365 |
1 - 122 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Churchill families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Churchill census records
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Churchill Family Origin
Churchill Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Churchill
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Churchill Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Churchill census records
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Churchill Civil War Service Records
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