Creed Family History
Creed Name Meaning
Southern Irish: reduced form of Creedon.English: from the Old English personal name
Creoda.English: habitational name from Creed Farm in
Bosham, Sussex, so named with an Old English word crede
‘weeds’, ‘plants’. In part the surname may perhaps have arisen from a
place called Creed in Cornwall, named for the patron saint of the
church, St. Cride.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Creed
Name Distribution of Creed Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Creed families
 36 - 70  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Creed families
|
203 - 403 68 - 202 |
1 - 67 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Creed families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Creed census records
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Creed Family Origin
Creed Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Creed
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Creed Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Creed census records
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Creed Civil War Service Records
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