Comfort Family History
Comfort Name Meaning
English (Kent): probably a habitational name from a place near
Birling in Kent, now called Comfortsplace Farm, earlier known as
Comports Place (1559) and Comporte (1601). This was
named for a family associated with it called de Cumpeworth
(1255). The place from which the family took its name has not been
identified. adm.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Comfort Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Comfort families
 38 - 74  13 - 37 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Comfort families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Comfort Family Origin
Comfort Emigration Information (US)
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Comfort Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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