Holme Family History
- Holme Name Meaning
- English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modern English holly (see Hollis). English and Scottish: topographic name or habitational name from northern Middle English holm ‘island’, Old Norse holmr (see Holm 1). Danish and Swedish: variant of Holm 1. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from the dative singular of Old Norse holmr ‘islet’, ‘low flat land beside a river’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 246,206 Historical Documents with Holme on Ancestry
- 115,709 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 36,178 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,034 Military Records
- 27,511 Immigration Records
- 63,774 Member Trees
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Number of Holme families
 364 - 726  122 - 363 |
 1 - 121  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Holme families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Holme 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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