Fordham Family History
- Fordham Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the places in Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Norfolk named Fordham, from Old English ford ‘ford’ + ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 432,147 Historical Documents with Fordham on Ancestry
- 106,397 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 92,423 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,115 Military Records
- 5,550 Immigration Records
- 217,662 Member Trees
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Number of Fordham families
 60 - 118  21 - 59 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fordham families
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471 - 939 158 - 470 |
1 - 157 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fordham families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fordham census records
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- England (61)
- Great Britain (6)
- Ireland (3)
- England;Great Britain (1)
- Germany (1)
- Great Britain;Ireland (1)
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
Fordham census records
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- All Fordham
- 105
- Confederate
- 24
- Union
- 81
from the Civil War Service Records
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