Killam Family History
- Killam Name Meaning
- Altered spelling of the English habitational name Kil(l)ham, from places in Northumberland and East Yorkshire, so named from Old English cylnum ‘(at) the kilns’, dative plural of cyln.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 127,471 Historical Documents with Killam on Ancestry
- 17,540 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,641 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,524 Military Records
- 2,773 Immigration Records
- 91,993 Member Trees
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Number of Killam families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Killam families
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16 - 29 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Killam 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
Killam census records
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