Sunderland Family History
Sunderland Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so called,
especially the city at the mouth of the river Wear. This, like other
places so called in Cumbria, Lancashire, and southern Scotland,
derives its name from Old English sundor ‘separate’ +
land ‘land’; a further example in Northumbria has the same
origin as Sutherland.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sunderland
Name Distribution of Sunderland Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sunderland families
 52 - 101  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sunderland families
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1,209 - 2,416 404 - 1,208 |
1 - 403 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sunderland families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sunderland census records
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Sunderland Family Origin
Sunderland Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sunderland
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Sunderland Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sunderland census records
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Sunderland Civil War Service Records
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