Rohn Family History
- Rohn Name Meaning
- nickname for a coarse or uncouth person, from Middle High German ron(e) ‘stump’, ‘block’. habitational name from places named Rohne, Rohna, or Ronau in Silesia, Thuringia, and Saxony. from a short form of the medieval personal name Hieronymus (see Jerome).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 96,065 Historical Documents with Rohn on Ancestry
- 51,410 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 17,732 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,157 Military Records
- 3,536 Immigration Records
- 19,230 Member Trees
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Number of Rohn families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Rohn 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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