Eastham Family History
Eastham Name Meaning
English: habitational name, now chiefly found in Lancashire, from
any of various places so named from Old English east ‘east’
+ ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’. There are
places so named in Cheshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire, the first
of which seems to have contributed most to the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Eastham Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Eastham families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Eastham families
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794 - 1,586 265 - 793 |
1 - 264 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Eastham Family Origin
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Eastham Family Occupations
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