Esch Family History
- Esch Name Meaning
- habitational name from any of several places named Esch, from Old High German asc ‘ash’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent ash tree. from Middle High German ezzisch ‘seeded field’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by an area where grain was grown or perhaps a status name for someone who owned such land.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 156,447 Historical Documents with Esch on Ancestry
- 81,600 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,043 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,846 Military Records
- 2,915 Immigration Records
- 51,043 Member Trees
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Number of Esch families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Esch 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
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