Cosgrove Family History
Cosgrove Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Cosgrove in Northamptonshire,
named with an Old English personal name Cof + Old English
graf ‘grove’, ‘thicket’.Irish: surname adopted
from English by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Coscraigh
‘descendant of Coscrach’, a byname meaning ‘victorious’,
‘triumphant’ (from coscur ‘victory’, ‘triumph’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cosgrove
Name Distribution of Cosgrove Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cosgrove families
 189 - 375  64 - 188 |
 1 - 63  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cosgrove families
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256 - 509 86 - 255 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cosgrove families
|
92 - 182 31 - 91 |
1 - 30 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cosgrove census records
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Cosgrove Family Origin
Cosgrove Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cosgrove
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Cosgrove Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cosgrove census records
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Cosgrove Civil War Service Records
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