Bonham Family History
- Bonham Name Meaning
- English: nickname from Old French bon homme (Latin bonus homo). This had two senses relevant to surname formation; partly it had the literal meaning ‘good man’, and partly it came to mean ‘peasant farmer’. Americanized form of French Bonhomme.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 590,632 Historical Documents with Bonham on Ancestry
- 83,194 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 56,867 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,346 Military Records
- 3,644 Immigration Records
- 435,581 Member Trees
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Number of Bonham families
 57 - 111  20 - 56 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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94 - 186 32 - 93 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bonham census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bonham census records
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- All Bonham
- 270
- Confederate
- 101
- Union
- 169
from the Civil War Service Records
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