Hoff Family History
Hoff Name Meaning
North German, Dutch, and Danish: topographic name or status
name for the owner of a farm, or occupational name for someone who
worked on the main farm in a community, from Middle High and Low
German hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’, or habitational name from
any of the many places named with this word. JXE Compare
Hofer.Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous
farmsteads named Hov, from Old Norse hof ‘sacrificial temple’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hoff
Name Distribution of Hoff Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hoff families
 34 - 66  12 - 33 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hoff families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hoff census records
You can see how Hoff families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Hoff Family Origin
Hoff Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Hoff families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hoff Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Hoff families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hoff Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hoff census records
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Military Service by Hoff
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