Forbush Family History
Forbush Name Meaning
Scottish: altered form of the Scottish name Forbes,
which was traditionally pronounced as two syllables.Respelling of German Vorbusch, a topographic name for
someone living on the edge of a wood, from vor ‘in front of’ +
North German Busch ‘wood’, ‘bush’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Forbush
Name Distribution of Forbush Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Forbush families
 29 - 56  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Forbush families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Forbush Family Origin
Forbush Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Forbush
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Forbush Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Forbush census records
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Forbush Civil War Service Records
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