Fordham Family History
Fordham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in
Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Norfolk named Fordham, from Old English
ford ‘ford’ + ham ‘homestead’ or hamm
‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fordham
Name Distribution of Fordham Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fordham families
 60 - 118  21 - 59 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fordham families
|
471 - 939 158 - 470 |
1 - 157 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fordham families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fordham census records
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Fordham Family Origin
Fordham Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Fordham
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Fordham Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Fordham census records
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Fordham Civil War Service Records
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