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The markham Surname

markham Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire, named in Old English as ‘homestead at a (district) boundary’, from mearc ‘boundary’ + ham ‘homestead’.
  2. Irish: English surname used as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Marcacháin ‘descendant of Marcachán’, a diminutive of Marcach (see Markey). This is a Galway surname, which is sometimes ‘translated’ as Ryder.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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markham Family Facts

Distribution of markham Families in the US in 1920
Number of markham families
 82-162
 28-81
 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Markham Claude janetmarkham1 0
MARKHAM Family @@cmarkham@cwcom.net 11
Lewis Markham tdiannec 1
Markhams of Michigan Mozzyb28 7
children of John Dillard & Georgia Belle Markham heidiknoedler 1
Edward Markham born about 1862-1872 in Illinois Died 1908 in Mo sjc10 1
uyliss Markham heidiknoedler 0
george earl markham-pennsylvania Rodger_Dent 3
MARKHAM FAMILY - TENNESSEE LOUISANA TO ALL..... 38
F.M. Markham triplesarabians1 0
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