Compton Family History
- Compton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the numerous places throughout England (but especially in the south) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,715,839 Historical Documents with Compton on Ancestry
- 396,610 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 215,368 Census and Voter Lists
- 54,212 Military Records
- 15,554 Immigration Records
- 1,034,095 Member Trees
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Number of Compton families
 152 - 302  51 - 151 |
 1 - 50  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Compton families
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296 - 589 99 - 295 |
1 - 98 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Compton families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Compton census records
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- England (99)
- Ireland (50)
- Great Britain (13)
- Scotland (3)
- Paris,United States of America (2)
- Canada (1)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Compton 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.
from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Compton census records
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- All Compton
- 988
- Confederate
- 480
- Union
- 508
from the Civil War Service Records
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