Furlong Family History
Furlong Name Meaning
English and Irish: apparently a topographic name from Middle
English furlong ‘length of a field’ (from Old English
furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’), the technical term for the
block of strips owned by several different persons which formed the
unit of cultivation in the medieval open-field system of farming, or a
habitational name from a minor place named with this word, such as
Furlong in Devon or Shropshire. The surname is now chiefly common in
Ireland, where a family of this name settled at the end of the 13th
century.Possibly an Americanized form of French Ferland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Furlong Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Furlong families
 92 - 182  31 - 91 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Furlong families
|
176 - 350 59 - 175 |
1 - 58 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Furlong families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Furlong Family Origin
Furlong Immigration Information
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Furlong Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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