Jost Family History
Jost Name Meaning
Dutch and German: from a personal name, a derivative of the Breton
personal name Iodoc (see Joyce), or from the personal
name Just (see Just).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Jost
Name Distribution of Jost Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Jost families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Jost census records
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Jost Family Origin
Jost Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Jost Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Jost census records
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Military Service by Jost
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