Stenson Family History
- Stenson Name Meaning
- English: patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Steven. English: habitational name from a place in Derbyshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Steintune, later as Steineston, from the Old Norse personal name Steinn (meaning ‘stone’) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Variant of Steenson 2.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 149,092 Historical Documents with Stenson on Ancestry
- 59,714 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 40,423 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,879 Military Records
- 7,002 Immigration Records
- 37,074 Member Trees
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Number of Stenson families
 78 - 153  27 - 77 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stenson families
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47 - 91 16 - 46 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Stenson 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
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