Bolt Family History
Bolt Name Meaning
English (chiefly West Country): from Middle English bolt
‘bolt’, ‘bar’ (Old English bolt ‘arrow’). In part this may have
originated as a nickname or byname for a short but powerfully built
person, in part as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts.Danish: variant of Boldt.Variant of
Bold.German: from a short form of the personal names
Baldwin or Reinbold.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bolt
Name Distribution of Bolt Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bolt families
 332 - 661  111 - 331 |
 1 - 110  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bolt families
|
33 - 64 12 - 32 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bolt Family Origin
Bolt Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bolt Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Bolt
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