Sutherland Family History
Sutherland Name Meaning
Scottish: regional name from the former county of this name, so
named from Old Norse suðr ‘south’ + land ‘land’
because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies
in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sutherland
Name Distribution of Sutherland Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sutherland families
 230 - 457  77 - 229 |
 1 - 76  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sutherland families
|
343 - 683 115 - 342 |
1 - 114 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sutherland families
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1,396 - 2,790 466 - 1,395 |
1 - 465 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sutherland census records
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Sutherland Family Origin
Sutherland Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sutherland
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Sutherland Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sutherland census records
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Sutherland Civil War Service Records
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