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Farnham Name Study

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Date: 18 May 2016
Surnames/tags: Farnham Farnum Farnam
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This is a page dedicated to the Farnham surname and people who share this name.


About the Project

The Farnham Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Farnham [1] name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Farnham name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual team studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Farnham's), by time period (18th Century Farnham's), or by topic (Farnham DNA, Farnham Occupations, Farnham Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.[1]

How to Join

To join the Farnham Name Study, first start out by browsing our current teams and research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team/research page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Anonymous Farnham for assistance.

... ... ... is a member of the Farnham Name Study Project.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

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Membership

About the Farnham Surname

The Farnham surname is a habitational or Toponymic name associated with places named Farnham in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Suffolk, Surrey and Yorkshire in England. All were named from the Old English Fearn ‘Fern’ + Either Hām ‘Homestead’ Or Hamm ‘Enclosure Hemmed In By Water A Water-Meadow’. [2]

Farnham Surname and Origins

Comprehensive research was conducted into the Farnham surname by Frank Horace Farnham over a 39 year period. This research was compiled by Antoinette Farnham Stepanek and published in 1995. Their research acts as a good starting point to understanding the pre 1500 early origins of the Farnham surname. [3]

This space page will seek to summarise and use the functions within WikiTree to build connections and categorise them.

Origins

The history of the Farnham surname is inextricably linked to the places that bear the same name. People would be 'of' Farnham. Hence, early names would be 'de' Farnham. Farnham in Surrey, England is the logical starting point due to the size of the town and its history. Therefore, reading the history of Farnham partly leads to an understanding of the surname. There are a number of resources that can be explored in relation to the history of the 'place'.

Antoinette Farnham Stepanek explores 'the people' bearing the name in greater detail. She explores the people in the early history of Farnham. She undertakes a first name study and identifies Ralph as a key early Farnham first name by looking at instances of the name in historical documents.[4]

Farnham's by UK Geographical Location

The Farnham surname was originally associated with a variety of places within England. Frank Horace Farnham's study is a NAME study and therefore groups ALL individuals by mentions of names within specific record sets.

Due to WikiTree's ability to show connections the aim of this space page is to identify distinct family trees based around the Farnham name. So ideally we are looking to include the earliest known ancestor of a modern family tree and then WikiTree will do the rest. A baptism record should be used or earliest known record used in absence of baptism record in order to identify the county. We can then build a series of, potentially, unconnected Farnham family trees.

There is a superb one name tree app that can assist in developing these links: One Name Tree App: Farnham

Cambridgeshire

Devon

Dorset

Essex

Farnham is a small village in Essex, England, situated near Bishop's Stortford. Farnham is mentioned in the Domesday Book as one of the settlements in Clavering hundred.

WikiTree profiles associated with this area include:

Kent

London

Leicestershire

Surrey

Warwickshire

Yorkshire

Farnham Migrations

Below are lists of key migrants. These will often by progenitors for wider ancestries.

Migration to USA

Ralph Farnham - 1603 emigrated to New England in 1635.[5]

Migration to Australia

Migration to Ireland


Notable Farnhams

The aim of this section is to detail connected notable Farnham's listed on WikiPedia: Farnham Su name on Wikipedia

Farnham DNA

This lists profiles who are DNA tested and have Farnham ancestors.

The Farnham surname Y-DNA project is here: Y DNA project Family Tree DNA

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

FARNUM BARNHAM FARMAN FARNAM PARNHAM FARNAN VARNHAM FARRAN FARNON FARNEN FERNAN

Sources

  1. ↑ Early Records and Notes of the Farnum Family of Andover
  2. ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names, 2013, Oxford University Press
  3. ↑ "Farnham families in England", 1995, Stepanek, Antoinette Farnham and Farnham, Frank Horace. Farnham Families in England by Antoinette Stepanek
  4. ↑ "Farnham families in England", 1995, Stepanek, Antoinette Farnham and Farnham, Frank Horace. Farnham Families in England by Antoinette Stepanek
  5. ↑ Farnham, Russell C. "The English Origin of Ralph Farnham of Ipswich, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 69 (1994): 32.

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Rowles-314 Darryl Rowles
In Maine we have Farnham descendants who used Varnam, Varnum spelling. It gets very confusing.

See Wanton Stover (Farnam) Varnum (1767-1821) David Varnum (1784-1861)

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