Churchill Family History
- Churchill Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places named Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic element crug ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English hyll ‘hill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,246,804 Historical Documents with Churchill on Ancestry
- 285,323 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 195,584 Census and Voter Lists
- 40,519 Military Records
- 20,781 Immigration Records
- 704,597 Member Trees
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Number of Churchill families
 366 - 730  123 - 365 |
 1 - 122  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Churchill families
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45 - 88 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Churchill census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Churchill census records
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