Macon Family History
- Macon Name Meaning
- (Maçon): occupational name for a mason, French maçon. habitational name from places so called in Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Aube, the Côte d’Or, Gers, and Deux-Sères. from the old oblique form of a Germanic personal name Mako, from Mago, a short form of a compound name formed with maht ‘strength’, ‘power’ as the first element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 516,298 Historical Documents with Macon on Ancestry
- 75,211 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 24,098 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,344 Military Records
- 1,336 Immigration Records
- 403,309 Member Trees
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Number of Macon families
 45 - 88  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Macon families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Macon families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Macon census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Macon
- 177
- Confederate
- 140
- Union
- 37
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