Arras Family History
Arras Name Meaning
English and French: habitational name from the city of Arras in Artois, northern France, or one of the other places in France so named.Scottish: habitational name from Airhouse, a locality in Channelkirk, Berwickshire.English: habitational name from a place called Arras in East Yorkshire, earlier spelled Erghes, from the plural of Old Norse erg ‘hut’, ‘shelter’.German: metonymic occupational name for a cloth merchant, from a type of woolen cloth for which the city of Arras in Flanders was famous in the Middle Ages. This name is also established in Mexico.
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Name Distribution of Arras Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Arras families
 3 - 4  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Arras families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Arras Family Origin
Arras Emigration Information (US)
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Arras Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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