Sedgwick Family History
Sedgwick Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Sedgwick in Cumbria, so named from
the Middle English personal name Sigg(e) (from Old Norse
Siggi or Old English Sicg, short forms of the various
compound names with the first element ‘victory’) + Old English
wic ‘outlying settlement’, ‘dairy farm’; or from Sedgewick
in Sussex, named with Old English secg ‘sedge’ +
wic.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sedgwick
Name Distribution of Sedgwick Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sedgwick families
 27 - 52  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sedgwick families
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423 - 844 142 - 422 |
1 - 141 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sedgwick families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sedgwick Family Origin
Sedgwick Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Sedgwick
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Sedgwick Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Sedgwick Civil War Service Records
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