Yarrow Family History
Yarrow Name Meaning
habitational name from a place
so called, named for the river on which it stands, one in the Border
region of Scotland, the other in Lancashire, both named with Welsh
garw ‘rough’.topographic name for someone who lived in a
place overgrown with yarrow, Old English gearwe.
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Name Distribution of Yarrow Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Yarrow families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Yarrow families
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62 - 121 21 - 61 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Yarrow families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Yarrow Family Origin
Yarrow Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Yarrow
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Yarrow Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Yarrow census records
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