Hirst Family History
Hirst Name Meaning
Northern English: variant spelling of Hurst.German
(Hürst): topographic name from Middle Low German
hurst ‘brushwood’, ‘wild place’, cognate with English
Hurst and Low German Horst.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hirst
Name Distribution of Hirst Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hirst families
 56 - 109  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hirst families
|
3,309 - 6,616 1,104 - 3,308 |
1 - 1,103 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hirst families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hirst census records
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Hirst Family Origin
Hirst Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hirst
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Hirst Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hirst census records
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Hirst Civil War Service Records
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