Fountain Family History
Fountain Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or
well, from Old French fontane, Middle English fontayne
‘fountain’; in some cases the name may have arisen from French
habitational names (Fontaine, Fonteyne,
Lafontaine) of the same derivation.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fountain
Name Distribution of Fountain Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fountain families
 210 - 417  71 - 209 |
 1 - 70  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fountain families
|
11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fountain census records
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Fountain Family Origin
Fountain Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fountain Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Fountain Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fountain census records
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Military Service by Fountain
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