Fleet Family History
Fleet Name Meaning
habitational name from one of the places called Fleet,
in Dorset, Hampshire, Kent, and Lincolnshire, or from Holt Fleet on
the Severn river in Worcestershire, all named with Old English
fleot ‘stream’ or ‘estuary’. It may also be a topographic
name from the same word used independently.nickname for a swift
runner, from Middle English flete ‘fleet’, ‘rapid’ (probably
from Old English fleotan ‘to float or glide rapidly’, and so
ultimately akin to 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fleet
Name Distribution of Fleet Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fleet families
 180 - 357  61 - 179 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fleet families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fleet census records
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Fleet Family Origin
Fleet Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fleet Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fleet census records
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Military Service by Fleet
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