Hollingshead Family History
Hollingshead Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from a lost place in County
Durham called Hollingside or Holmside, from Old English
hole(g)n ‘holly’ + side ‘hillside’, ‘slope’; there is
a Hollingside Lane on the southern outskirts of Durham city. In some
cases it may be from Hollinhead in Lancashire, so named from Old
English holegn ‘holly’ + heafod ‘headland’, ‘ridge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hollingshead Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hollingshead families
 21 - 39  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hollingshead families
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32 - 61 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hollingshead Family Origin
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Hollingshead Family Occupations
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