Seaman Family History
Seaman Name Meaning
English (Norfolk): from a medieval continuation of the Old
English personal name S?mann, composed of the elements
s? ‘sea’ + mann ‘man’.English: occupational
name for a sailor.Americanized spelling of German and Jewish
Seemann.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Seaman
Name Distribution of Seaman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Seaman families
 408 - 813  137 - 407 |
 1 - 136  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Seaman families
|
271 - 540 91 - 270 |
1 - 90 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Seaman families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Seaman census records
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Seaman Family Origin
Seaman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Seaman
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Seaman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Seaman census records
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Seaman Civil War Service Records
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