Lincoln Family History
Lincoln Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from
an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia
‘settlement’, ‘colony’. The place was an important administrative
center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages
it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous
‘Lincoln green’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lincoln
Name Distribution of Lincoln Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lincoln families
 258 - 513  87 - 257 |
 1 - 86  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lincoln families
|
267 - 532 90 - 266 |
1 - 89 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lincoln families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lincoln Family Origin
Lincoln Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Lincoln
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Lincoln Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Lincoln census records
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Lincoln Civil War Service Records
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