Hanover Family History
Hanover Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from the city of
Hannover in Lower Saxony. The place name, first recorded in the form
Honovere, is a compound of Middle Low German ho,
hoch ‘high’ + over ‘bank’, ‘shore’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hanover
Name Distribution of Hanover Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hanover families
 23 - 44  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hanover families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hanover families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hanover census records
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Hanover Family Origin
Hanover Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hanover
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Hanover Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hanover census records
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Hanover Civil War Service Records
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