Anstey Family History
Anstey Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the dozen places in England
called Anstey or Ansty, from Old English anstiga, a compound
of an ‘one’ + stig ‘path’, denoting a short
stretch of road forking at both ends. The surname is found principally
in Somerset and the West Country.
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Name Distribution of Anstey Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Anstey families
 86 - 170  29 - 85 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Anstey families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Anstey Family Origin
Anstey Emigration Information (US)
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Anstey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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