Leeds Family History
Leeds Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city in West Yorkshire, or the
place in Kent. The former is of British origin, appearing in Bede in
the form Loidis ‘People of the Lat’, (Lat
being an earlier name of the river Aire, meaning ‘the violent
one’). Loidis was originally a district name, but was subsequently
restricted to the city. The Kentish place name may be from an Old
English stream name hl¯de ‘loud, rushing stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Leeds
Name Distribution of Leeds Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leeds families
 53 - 104  18 - 52 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Leeds families
|
66 - 130 23 - 65 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leeds families
|
12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leeds census records
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Leeds Family Origin
Leeds Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Leeds
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Leeds Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Leeds census records
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Leeds Civil War Service Records
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