Lawless Family History
Lawless Name Meaning
Scottish, Irish, and English: nickname for an unbridled and
licentious man, from Middle English laghless, lawelas (a
compound of late Old English lagu ‘law’ (from Old Norse) + the
native suffix -l(e)as ‘without’, ‘lacking’). Reaney suggests
additionally that this name may have referred to an outlaw (i.e. one
from whom the protection of the law had been withdrawn), but this
seems unlikely.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lawless Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lawless families
 105 - 207  36 - 104 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lawless families
|
263 - 524 88 - 262 |
1 - 87 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lawless families
|
16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lawless Family Origin
Lawless Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Lawless
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Lawless Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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