Boness Family History
Boness Name Meaning
South German: derisive nickname meaning ‘bean-eater’ (from a
compound of Middle High German bone ‘bean’ + ezzen ‘to
eat’), used to denote a bean-grower or a poor person whose diet
consisted mainly of beans.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Boness
Name Distribution of Boness Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boness families
 34 - 66  12 - 33 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Boness families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Boness Family Origin
Boness Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Boness Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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