Bath Family History
Bath Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Bath in western
England, which is the site of sumptuous, but in the Middle Ages
ruined, Roman baths. The place is named with the dative plural of Old
English bæð ‘bath’. In some cases the surname may have
originated as a metonymic occupational name for an attendant at a
public bath house.Scottish: reduced and altered form of
McBeth.German: variant of Bathe.Indian
(Panjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bath
Name Distribution of Bath Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bath families
 152 - 301  51 - 151 |
 1 - 50  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bath families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bath census records
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Bath Family Origin
Bath Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bath Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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