Needham Name Meaning: Habitational for any one of a number of places with this name i.e Suffolk. Old English ned 'hardship' + ham 'homestead'.
Usually implied a place of 'hardship' & 'poor living'.
Discover how your Needham ancestors earned their living and spread across the country. Find out more about your family history by using the Free Search box.Bedfordshire | 0 |
Buckinghamshire | 20 |
Berkshire | 1 |
Cambridgeshire | 28 |
Channel Islands | 0 |
Cheshire | 226 |
Cornwall | 5 |
Cumberland | 6 |
Derbyshire | 572 |
Devon | 4 |
Dorset | 0 |
Durham | 62 |
Essex | 7 |
Gloucestershire | 28 |
Hampshire | 14 |
Herefordshire | 6 |
Hertfordshire | 2 |
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) | 85 |
Isle of Man | 0 |
Kent | 26 |
Lancashire | 1,030 |
Leicestershire | 379 |
Lincolnshire | 429 |
London | 401 |
Middlesex | 36 |
Northumberland | 9 |
Norfolk | 9 |
Northamptonshire | 16 |
Nottinghamshire | 332 |
Oxfordshire | 5 |
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) | 85 |
Shropshire | 30 |
Suffolk | 6 |
Somerset | 1 |
Surrey | 18 |
Sussex | 21 |
Staffordshire | 95 |
Warwickshire | 53 |
Westmorland | 0 |
Wiltshire | 5 |
Worcestershire | 17 |
Yorkshire | 968 |
Anglesey | 0 |
Brecknockshire | 10 |
Cardiganshire | 0 |
Carnarvonshire | 0 |
Carmarthenshire | 0 |
Denbighshire | 15 |
Flintshire | 30 |
Glamorgan | 0 |
Merionethshire | 0 |
Montgomeryshire | 0 |
Monmouthshire | 11 |
Pembrokeshire | 2 |
Radnorshire | 0 |
Profession | Census Frequency |
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Scholar | 884 |
Labourer | 86 |
Agricultural Labourer | 85 |
Coal Miner | 60 |
Cotton Weaver | 58 |
Domestic Servant | 54 |
Dress Maker | 42 |
House Keeper | 41 |
General Servant | 29 |
Frame Work Knitter | 29 |
Farm Labourer | 26 |
Annuitant | 25 |
Butcher | 25 |
Cotton Operative | 20 |
Servant | 19 |
Farm Servant | 19 |
Laundress | 18 |
Gardener | 17 |
Cotton Piecer | 17 |
Farmer | 16 |
Farmers Son | 16 |
Stone Mason | 15 |
Joiner | 14 |
Silk Weaver | 14 |
Carter | 14 |
Name | Census Frequency |
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Mary Needham | 3,270 |
John Needham | 2,927 |
William Needham | 2,651 |
Elizabeth Needham | 1,796 |
Sarah Needham | 1,785 |
George Needham | 1,731 |
Thomas Needham | 1,645 |
James Needham | 1,414 |
Joseph Needham | 1,253 |
Ann Needham | 1,168 |
Charles Needham | 793 |
Hannah Needham | 707 |
Jane Needham | 676 |
Annie Needham | 638 |
Alice Needham | 610 |
Henry Needham | 543 |
Samuel Needham | 525 |
Ellen Needham | 522 |
Emma Needham | 510 |
Eliza Needham | 496 |
Robert Needham | 479 |
Martha Needham | 472 |
Arthur Needham | 387 |
Edward Needham | 361 |
Margaret Needham | 361 |