Fortune Family History
Fortune Name Meaning
English and French: nickname for a gambler or for someone
considered fortunate or well favored, from Middle English, Old French
fortune ‘chance’, ‘luck’. In some cases it may derive from the
rare medieval personal name Fortune (Latin Fortunius).French (Fortuné): from the personal name
Fortuné, a vernacular form of the Late Latin personal name
Fortunatus meaning ‘prosperous’, ‘happy’.Scottish:
habitational name from a place in Lothian, probably so named from Old
English for ‘hog’, ‘pig’ + tun ‘settlement’,
‘enclosure’; John de Fortun was servant to the abbot of Kelso
c. 1200.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Fortune Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fortune families
 158 - 314  53 - 157 |
 1 - 52  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fortune families
|
72 - 142 25 - 71 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fortune census records
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Fortune Family Origin
Fortune Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fortune Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Fortune Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fortune census records
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Military Service by Fortune
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