Cortes Family History
Cortes Name Meaning
Spanish (Cortés), Catalan (Cortès), and
Portuguese (Cortês): from cortés ‘courteous’,
‘polite’, a derivative of corte (see Corte), a nickname
for a refined person, sometimes no doubt given ironically.Spanish and Portuguese (Cortes): habitational name from any
of numerous places in Spain and Portugal named with cortes,
plural of corte ‘court’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cortes
Name Distribution of Cortes Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cortes families
 23 - 44  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cortes families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cortes Family Origin
Cortes Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cortes Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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