Welsh Family History
Welsh Name Meaning
Scottish and English: ethnic name for someone from Wales or a
speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and
Wallace.Irish: variant of Walsh.Americanized
spelling of German Welsch.Americanized form of Ukrainian
Volosin (see Woloszyn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Welsh
Name Distribution of Welsh Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Welsh families
 686 - 1,369  229 - 685 |
 1 - 228  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Welsh families
|
852 - 1,701 285 - 851 |
1 - 284 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Welsh families
|
608 - 1,213 203 - 607 |
1 - 202 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Welsh census records
You can see how Welsh families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Welsh Family Origin
Welsh Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Welsh families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Welsh
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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.
The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates,
death dates, addresses and more.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Welsh Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Welsh census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Welsh ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Welsh Civil War Service Records
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