The state of Tennessee had many immigrants living within its boundries between 1850-1930. With the Mississippi River flowing through the western boundary of Tennessee, many immigrants found Memphis and other river cities as their home. They gradually moved futher into Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and other states.

The countries that had the most residents in Tennessee were England, Ireland and Germany. France, Africa and China had just a few living within the Tennessee bounadaries. Tennessee has continued to be a state with a deep presence from other countries from Mexico to Canada. Alot of these residence became naturalized and United States citizens. They saw that the state of Tennessee had alot to offer and continued to live and raise their families there.

Below is the census count for the state of Tennessee for each of those census years. Then each country's count of residents that lived in Tennessee is shown. For example, in 1860 there were 381 Italians that lived in the state of Tennessee.

1850*/ 1860*/ 1870*/ 1880*/ 1900*/ 1910*/ 1920*/ 1930*

Tennessee
546,248/ 588,411/ 705,815/ 1,280,521/ 1,730,690/ 1,869,861/ 1,996,611/ 639,496

Italy
59/ 381/ 476/ 337/ 1,252/ 2,051/ 2,094/ 1,175

France
263/ 460/ 474/ 485/ 343/ 323/ 302/ 132

Africa
3/ 0/ 24/ 33/ 25/ 28/ 16/ 7

Mexico
9/ 11/ 10/ 11/ 27/ 78/ 235/ 51

England
679/ 1,990/ 1,759/ 1,982/ 2,219/ 2,099/ 1,692/ 883

Ireland
2,275 /12,368/ 7,113/ 5,957/ 3,323/ 2,302/ 1,328/ 478

Canada
58/ 325/ 460/ 448/ 1,020/ 1,220/ 1,094/ 566

China
0/ 6/ 4/ 29/ 74/ 43/ 50/ 49

Russia
2/ 43/ 81/ 49/ 1,135/ 2,435/ 2,569/ 1,010

Germany*
1,072/ 2,450/ 5/ 1,599/ 4,463/ 4,053/ 2,089/ 1,220


*For all census (1850-1930), the births are searched for country as listed above. If birth was listed under a particular city or province in the country, and not by the above country names, it would not be included in this report. This data was collected October 16, 2007 on Ancestry.com.