Tilghman Family History
Tilghman Name Meaning
Possibly an altered spelling of German Tilchmann, an
occupational name for someone who raised or tended trees, from Middle
Low German telge ‘branch’, ‘young tree’, ‘seedling’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Tilghman Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tilghman families
 108 - 213  37 - 107 |
 1 - 36  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tilghman families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tilghman census records
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Tilghman Family Origin
Tilghman Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Tilghman
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Tilghman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Tilghman census records
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Tilghman Civil War Service Records
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