Oswald Family History
Oswald Name Meaning
Scottish, northern English, and German: from an Old English
personal name composed of the elements os ‘god’ +
weald ‘power’. In the Middle English period, this fell together
with the less common Old Norse cognate Ásvaldr. The name was
introduced to Germany from England, as a result of the fame of St. Oswald, a 7th-century king of Northumbria, whose deeds were reported
by Celtic missionaries to southern Germany. The name was also borne by
a 10th-century English saint of Danish parentage, who was important as
a monastic reformer.Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of
Gaelic Ó hEodhusa (see Hussey 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Oswald Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Oswald families
 173 - 344  58 - 172 |
 1 - 57  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Oswald families
|
113 - 224 38 - 112 |
1 - 37 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Oswald families
|
97 - 191 33 - 96 |
1 - 32 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Oswald Family Origin
Oswald Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Oswald
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Oswald Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Oswald census records
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