Selden Family History
Selden Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Selden Farm in the parish of
Patching, Sussex, probably so called from Old English s(e)alh
‘willow’ + denu ‘valley’.
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Name Distribution of Selden Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Selden families
 29 - 56  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Selden families
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18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Selden Family Origin
Selden Immigration Information
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Selden Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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