Cornish Family History
Cornish Name Meaning
English: regional name for someone from the county of Cornwall,
from Middle English corneys, cornysh. Not surprisingly,
the surname is common in adjacent Devon, but it is also well
established as far afield as Essex and Lancashire.Possibly
also an Americanized spelling of German Kornisch, a nickname
for a sickly or weak person, from Sorbian krne ‘weak’, ‘poor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cornish
Name Distribution of Cornish Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cornish families
 101 - 199  34 - 100 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cornish families
|
397 - 791 133 - 396 |
1 - 132 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cornish families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cornish census records
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Cornish Family Origin
Cornish Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Cornish families immigrated
to the United States.
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Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cornish
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
your family.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Cornish Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cornish census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Cornish ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Cornish Civil War Service Records
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