Byron Family History
- Byron Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Byram in West Yorkshire or Byrom in Lancashire, both named with Old English b¯rum ‘at the cattle sheds’, dative plural of b¯re ‘byre’. This name and the variants Biron and Biram have occasionally been adopted as Jewish surnames, presumably as Americanized forms of Jewish names that cannot now be identified.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 377,325 Historical Documents with Byron on Ancestry
- 120,741 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 74,202 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,955 Military Records
- 11,387 Immigration Records
- 152,040 Member Trees
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Number of Byron families
 159 - 315  54 - 158 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Byron families
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14 - 25 5 - 13 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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