Hamm Family History
- Hamm Name Meaning
- English: topographic name from Old English hamm, denoting a patch of flat, low-lying alluvial land beside a stream (often a promontory or water meadow in a river bend), or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word, for example in Gloucestershire, Greater London, Kent, Somerset, and Wiltshire. German: topographic name for someone who lived on land in a river bend, Old High German ham (see 1 above). German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Hamm, a city in Westphalia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 705,527 Historical Documents with Hamm on Ancestry
- 232,884 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 77,802 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,171 Military Records
- 9,770 Immigration Records
- 358,900 Member Trees
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Number of Hamm families
 34 - 65  12 - 33 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hamm census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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