Morphew Family History
Morphew Name Meaning
descriptive nickname from Middle English
morphew ‘blemish’, ‘birthmark’, from Italian morfea.According to Reaney, an Anglo-Norman French nickname
from Old French malfé, malfeü, from Latin
malefatus, malefatutus ‘ill-fated’, a derogatory term
for a Saracen or the devil.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Morphew
Name Distribution of Morphew Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Morphew families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Morphew families
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58 - 113 20 - 57 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Morphew census records
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Morphew Family Origin
Morphew Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Morphew
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Morphew Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Morphew census records
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Morphew Civil War Service Records
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