Hampshire Family History
- Hampshire Name Meaning
- regional name from the southern English county so called, which derives its name from Hampton (i.e. the port of Southampton) + Old English scir ‘division’, ‘district’. regional name from the area of Hallamshire in southern Yorkshire, named from Hallam + Middle English schir ‘division’, ‘administrative region’ (Old English scir). The surname is most common in Yorkshire, where this second derivation is most likely to be the source.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 276,897 Historical Documents with Hampshire on Ancestry
- 96,659 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 57,508 Census and Voter Lists
- 19,137 Military Records
- 3,503 Immigration Records
- 100,090 Member Trees
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Number of Hampshire families
 29 - 56  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hampshire families
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491 - 980 164 - 490 |
1 - 163 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hampshire families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hampshire census records
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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
Hampshire census records
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- All Hampshire
- 25
- Confederate
- 7
- Union
- 18
from the Civil War Service Records
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