Roach Family History
Roach Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a rocky crag
or outcrop, from Old French roche (later replaced in England by
rock, from the Norman byform rocque), or a habitational
name from any of the places named with this word, such as Roach in
Devon, or Roche in Cornwall and South Yorkshire.English and Irish
(of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in
Normandy, as for example Les Roches in Seine-Maritime, named with Old
French roche, or from Roche Castle in Wales.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Roach
Name Distribution of Roach Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Roach families
 340 - 677  114 - 339 |
 1 - 113  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Roach families
|
354 - 705 119 - 353 |
1 - 118 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roach families
|
19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roach census records
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Roach Family Origin
Roach Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Roach
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Roach Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Roach census records
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