The Sledge surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,019 people carried this name — #4,433 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 36,800 people counted. That is up 6% from 7,550 in 2000.

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In print

Sledge in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1970s.

604 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sledge. The most, 114, date from the 1930s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 2.5 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 255
Western Australia 125
Queensland 92
Victoria 58
South Australia 54
ACT (Canberra) 9
Northern Territory 3
Tasmania 3

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sledge.

Who carried it

People named Sledge,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Eugene Sledge
    Eugene Sledge 1923–2001 · writer
  • Lawrence Sledge 1874–1957 · lawyer
  • William Sledge 1904–1955 · dairy farmer
  • William Arthur Sledge 1904–1991 · botanist
  • Percy Sledge 1940–2015 · singer
  • Percy Sledge 1941–2015 · singer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Sledge,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States413 records

413 records of the Sledge name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 244
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 110
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 36
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 10
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 5
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  • New York State police and firefighter memorial rolls 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Mack K. Sledge

    Born 1914 in Louisiana. Enlisted 1943 at Los Angeles, California; stock clerk. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1995, buried at Dianne Booth - Richwood Memorial Gardens, Monroe, Louisiana.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Douglas Roy Sledge

    Born 1949; from Ft Worth, Texas. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; killed in action 1969 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Emily Sledge

    Arrived at New York in 1879 aboard the Somerset from Bristol, aged 39; weaver. From England.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 413 records for Sledge in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · New York State, Open NY (police and firefighter memorial rolls). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Australia29 records

29 records of the Sledge name in Australia
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 17
  • NSW convict, estate and railway indexes 4
  • Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 4
  • Queensland State Archives indexes 3
  • Tasmanian Names Index 1
  1. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record William Sledge

    Transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Blenheim, sailing from Cork in 1851. Native of Tipperary.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Florence Sledge

    Arrived in Victoria in 1889 aboard the Orizaba, aged 1; English.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the Livre d’or of the French war dead, Paris
    Example: roll of the war dead
    War record Alfred Sledge

    NSW railway employee; served in the First World War with the 4th Battalion.

    Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)

Showing 3 of 29 records for Sledge in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) · Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Livre d’or of the war dead, Paris, Ministère des pensions, Archives nationales (CC0).

United Kingdom2 records

2 records of the Sledge name in the United Kingdom Stirling Council burial records
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Ernest Sledge

    Buried in 1959 at Snowdon Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland, aged 77.

    Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
  2. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Agnes Swan Sledge

    Buried in 1932 at Snowdon Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland, aged 50.

    Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Counts: Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).

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