The markham Surname

markham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire, named in Old English as ‘homestead at a (district) boundary’, from mearc ‘boundary’ + ham ‘homestead’.
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

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thread	Author	Replies
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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