Arthur Family History
- Arthur Name Meaning
- Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English, and French: from the ancient Celtic personal name Arthur. In many cases it is a shortened form of Scottish or Irish McArthur, the patronymic Mac- often being dropped in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries under English influence. The personal name is most probably from an old Celtic word meaning ‘bear’. Compare Gaelic art, Welsh arth, both of which mean ‘bear’. It has been in regular use as a personal name in Britain since the early Middle Ages, owing its popularity in large part to the legendary exploits of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which gave rise to a prolific literature in Welsh, French, English, German, and other European languages.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,842,581 Historical Documents with Arthur on Ancestry
- 483,640 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 353,035 Census and Voter Lists
- 63,319 Military Records
- 51,077 Immigration Records
- 891,510 Member Trees
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Number of Arthur families
 430 - 858  144 - 429 |
 1 - 143  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Arthur families
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54 - 105 19 - 53 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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