Cole Family History
Cole Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English pet form of Nicholas.English: from a Middle English personal name derived from the Old
English byname Cola (from col ‘(char)coal’, presumably
denoting someone of swarthy appearance), or the Old Norse cognate
Koli.Scottish and Irish: when not of English origin, this
is a reduced and altered form of McCool.In some cases,
particularly in New England, Cole is a translation of the French
surname Charbonneau.Probably an Americanized
spelling of German Kohl.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cole
Name Distribution of Cole Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cole families
 2,934 - 5,865  979 - 2,933 |
 1 - 978  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cole families
|
64 - 126 22 - 63 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cole census records
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Cole Family Origin
Cole Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cole Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cole Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cole census records
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Military Service by Cole
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