Layman Family History
- Layman Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of (fallow) arable land, Middle English leye. Americanized spelling of German Lehmann. German: variant of Lay 3.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 289,864 Historical Documents with Layman on Ancestry
- 89,125 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,255 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,803 Military Records
- 3,068 Immigration Records
- 135,613 Member Trees
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Number of Layman families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Layman families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Layman 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
Layman census records
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