Markham Family History
Markham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire,
named in Old English as ‘homestead at a (district) boundary’, from
mearc ‘boundary’ + ham ‘homestead’.Irish:
English surname used as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó
Marcacháin ‘descendant of Marcachán’, a diminutive of
Marcach (see Markey). This is a Galway surname, which is
sometimes ‘translated’ as Ryder.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Markham Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Markham families
 82 - 162  28 - 81 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Markham families
|
327 - 651 110 - 326 |
1 - 109 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Markham families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Markham Family Origin
Markham Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Markham
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Markham Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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