Onion Family History
Onion Name Meaning
Welsh: variant of Eynon.English: metonymic
occupational name for an onion grower or seller, from Old French
oignon ‘onion’.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Onion
Name Distribution of Onion Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Onion families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Onion families
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32 - 62 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Onion families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Onion census records
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Onion Family Origin
Onion Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Onion
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Onion Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Onion census records
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Onion Civil War Service Records
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