Factor Family History
Factor Name Meaning
German and Dutch: humanistic name, a translation into Latin of
any of various names meaning ‘steward’ or ‘agent’, for example
Hoffmann or Meyer.Scottish and English: from Latin
factor ‘agent’, literally ‘doer’, from facere ‘to
do’. In 15th-century English, this word developed the specialist sense
of a merchant’s agent in another town; it also came to denote a
steward in charge of an estate, the usual meaning in Scotland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Factor
Name Distribution of Factor Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Factor families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Factor families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Factor census records
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Factor Family Origin
Factor Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Factor Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Factor census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Factor ancestors, such as occupation.
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Military Service by Factor
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