Beahm History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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• Ireland

Early Origins of the Beahm family

Early History of the Beahm family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Beahm research. Another 52 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Beahm History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Beahm Spelling Variations

Individual scribes in the Ireland during the Middle Ages would often record a person's name various ways. How the name was recorded depended on what that particular scribe believed the proper spelling for the name pronounced to him was. Spelling variations revealed in the search for the origin of the Beahm family name include Behan, Beehan, Beaghan, O'Behan, Beehan, Beagan, O'Beaghan, O'Behen, Behen and many more.

Early Notables of the Beahm family

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Beahm Ranking

In the United States, the name Beahm is the 11,410^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 2

Migration of the Beahm family

In the late 18th century, Irish families began emigrating to North America in the search of a plot of land to call their own. This pattern of emigration grew steadily until the 1840s when the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s cause thousands of Irish to flee the death and disease that accompanied the disaster. Those that made it alive to the shores of the United States and British North America (later to become Canada) were, however, instrumental in the development of those two powerful nations. Many of these Irish immigrants proudly bore the name of Beahm: James Behan who arrived in New York City in 1822; Henry Behan settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1854; Michael Beehan settled in Philadelphia in 1868.