Hamill Family History
Hamill Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Haineville
or Henneville in Manche, France, named from the Germanic personal name
Hagano + Old French ville ‘settlement’.English (Yorkshire): nickname for a scarred or maimed person, from
Middle English, Old English hamel ‘mutilated’, ‘crooked’.Irish (Ulster): according to MacLysaght, a shortened Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó hÁdhmaill ‘descendant of
Ádhmall’, which he derives from ádhmall ‘active’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hamill Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hamill families
 63 - 124  22 - 62 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hamill families
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81 - 159 28 - 80 |
1 - 27 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hamill families
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115 - 227 39 - 114 |
1 - 38 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hamill census records
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Hamill Family Origin
Hamill Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hamill
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Hamill Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hamill census records
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