The Bach Family History

This is a site where you can find information about the history of the Bach family.

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The Bach Family in the Census

Census Freqency of the Surname Bach
1841 Census 309
1851 Census 306
1861 Census 463
1871 Census 489
1891 Census 798

Most Frequent Forenames for the Bach Family in the Census

Name 1841 Census 1851 Census 1861 Census 1871 Census 1891 Census Total
WILLIAM Bach 22 21 32 24 45
ELIZABETH Bach 22 18 29 30 31
JOHN Bach 26 18 21 33 23
THOMAS Bach 18 17 22 22 19
MARY Bach 23 19 25 7 23
SARAH Bach 20 14 22 21 14
GEORGE Bach 7 10 12 18 19
ANN Bach 13 13 12 12 7
JAMES Bach 13 8 11 7 14
CHARLES Bach 4 5 9 12 18
RICHARD Bach 12 9 10 11 5
HENRY Bach 7 5 13 8 12
EDWARD Bach 8 7 9 7 10
ELIZA Bach 5 6 12 6 11
MARGARET Bach 5 9 8 4 6
MARY ANN Bach 5 6 9 5 6
JANE Bach 2 5 9 7 7
EMMA Bach 5 1 9 6 8
JOSEPH Bach 5 5 6 4 6
ROBERT Bach 8 4 3 7 2

Etmology and History of the Surname: Bach

Search for the etymology and history of the surname Bach (information provided by www.BehindTheName.com).

Your Family History Search

You can use the forms below to do automatic searches for the Bach family online amongst birth, marriage and death records from 1837, plus census transcripts for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901


 


Case Study: Lawrence Oates
Lawrence Edward Grace Oates saw military service during the Second Boer War, as an officer in the dragoons. He can be found the the 1900 Army List.

 

Naval Service
Navy Lists contains additional information beyond naval officers and the dates of their seniority, which takes the careers of some back into the late eighteenth century.

 

Case Study - Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who achieved lasting fame by producing considerable evidence that the species came about through evolutionary change.

 

Possible Pitfalls in Using the Census
Many people don't realise that the census page images we see are actually transcripts of the household census forms, the details were copied into the books by the enumerators.