Somerset Family History
Somerset Name Meaning
English: regional name from the county of this name, so called from
Old English Sumor(tun)s?te ‘dwellers at the summer
settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Somerset
Name Distribution of Somerset Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Somerset families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Somerset families
|
57 - 112 20 - 56 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Somerset families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Somerset census records
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Somerset Family Origin
Somerset Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Somerset
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
your family.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Somerset Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Somerset census records
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Somerset Civil War Service Records
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