Plum Family History
Plum Name Meaning
English and North German: from Middle English plum(b)e, Middle Low German plum(e) ‘plum’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a plum tree, or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower. Reaney and Wilson, however, derive the English name from Old French plomb ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum), regarding it as a metonymic occupational name for a plumber.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Blum.Americanized form of Pflum.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Plum
Name Distribution of Plum Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Plum families
 26 - 50  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Plum families
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42 - 82 15 - 41 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Plum families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Plum census records
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Plum Family Origin
Plum Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Plum
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Plum Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Plum census records
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Plum Civil War Service Records
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