Kew Family History
Kew Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a cook, Anglo-Norman French
k(i)eu (from Latin coquus).English (of Norman
origin): habitational name from Caieu, a lost place near Boulogne in
Northern France.English: habitational name from a place in
Middlesex, now part of Greater London, probably named with Old English
c?g ‘key’, ‘projection’ + hoh ‘spur of land’.Irish: Ulster variant of McHugh.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kew Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kew families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kew families
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85 - 168 29 - 84 |
1 - 28 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kew Family Origin
Kew Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Kew
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Kew Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Kew Civil War Service Records
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