Dunham Family History
- Dunham Name Meaning
- English (chiefly Norfolk): habitational name from any of several places called Dunham, of which one is in Norfolk. Most are named from Old English dun ‘hill’ + ham ‘homestead’. A place in Lincolnshire now known as Dunholme appears in Domesday Book as Duneham and this too may be a source of the surname; here the first element is probably the Old English personal name Dunna.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,737,878 Historical Documents with Dunham on Ancestry
- 286,538 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 192,922 Census and Voter Lists
- 35,149 Military Records
- 13,956 Immigration Records
- 1,209,313 Member Trees
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Number of Dunham families
 277 - 552  93 - 276 |
 1 - 92  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dunham families
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111 - 220 38 - 110 |
1 - 37 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dunham families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dunham census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Dunham census records
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- All Dunham
- 1,119
- Confederate
- 212
- Union
- 907
from the Civil War Service Records
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