Plum Family History
- Plum Name Meaning
- English and North German: from Middle English plum(b)e, Middle Low German plum(e) ‘plum’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a plum tree, or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower. Reaney and Wilson, however, derive the English name from Old French plomb ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum), regarding it as a metonymic occupational name for a plumber. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Blum.Americanized form of Pflum.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 185,590 Historical Documents with Plum on Ancestry
- 63,622 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 26,257 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,020 Military Records
- 2,579 Immigration Records
- 88,112 Member Trees
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Number of Plum families
 26 - 50  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Plum families
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42 - 82 15 - 41 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Plum families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Plum 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 1880 Federal Census Data
Plum census records
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- All Plum
- 103
- Confederate
- 13
- Union
- 90
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