Windsor Family History
Windsor Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Windsor in Berkshire, Broadwindsor
in Dorset, or Winsor in Devon and Hampshire, all named from an
unattested Old English windels ‘windlass’ + Old English
ora ‘bank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Windsor
Name Distribution of Windsor Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Windsor families
 64 - 126  22 - 63 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Windsor families
|
223 - 443 75 - 222 |
1 - 74 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Windsor families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Windsor census records
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Windsor Family Origin
Windsor Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Windsor
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Windsor Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Windsor census records
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Windsor Civil War Service Records
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